Abstract: A user interface is animated and configurable to optimize, facilitate and simplify displaying on a display device and exploring via user input a hierarchy of information accessible by an electronic device.

Abstract: A method for displaying a source node having connections to contained nodes and linked nodes peripherally within and around the source node to which they are connected, computing a focus position for each of the contained and linked nodes; displaying a first contained node at an inclusion start angle, and displaying a first linked node at an adjacency start angle. Focus positions are calculated for a first contained node and a first linked node based on the start angles, a direction of rotation, either clockwise or counterclockwise, and the number of contained and linked nodes connected to the source node.

Abstract: A user interface with parameters that can be adjusted to display only a few nodes, in order to facilitate exploration, or many nodes simultaneously, in order to facilitate an user's understanding of a graph of nodes of information. The user interface provides for exploring a collection of connected objects simultaneously from the hierarchical and the relational points of view, and increases exposure to related information while maintaining context. Parameters can be adjusted to increase or decrease the extent of the relational context.

Abstract: A user interface is animated and configurable to optimize, facilitate and simplify displaying on a display device and exploring via user input a hierarchy of information accessible by an electronic device.