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R. Bade, S. Miksch, S. Schlechtweg:
"Connecting Time-Oriented Data and Information to a Coherent Interactive Visualization";
Talk: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI-2004), Vienna, Austria; 2004-04-24 - 2004-04-29; in: "Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI-2004)", ACM Press, 1 (2004), 105 - 112.

In modern intensive care units (ICUs), the medical staff has
to monitor a huge amount of high-dimensional and timeoriented
data, which needs to be visualized user- and taskspecifically
to ease diagnosis and treatment planning.
Available visual representations, like diagrams or charts
neglect the implicit information as well as a-priory or
associated knowledge about the data and its meaning (for
example, 38.5°C (101.3°F) is moderate fever and 41°C
(105.8°F) is critical fever). Another challenge is to provide
appropriate interaction techniques to explore and navigate
the data and its temporal dimensions. In this context one
major challenge is to connect time-oriented data and information
to a coherent interactive visualization. In this paper
we present different interactive visualization techniques
which enable the users to reveal the data at several levels of
detail and abstraction, ranging from a broad overview to the
fine structure. We will also introduce a time visualization
and navigation technique that connects overview+detail,
pan+zoom, and focus+context features to one powerful
time-browser.

http://aleph.ub.tuwien.ac.at/F?base=tuw01&func=find-c&ccl_term=AC04968652

http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~silvia/pub/publications/bad_chi2004.pdf