Context and Interaction in Zoomable User Interfaces

Context and Interaction in Zoomable User Interfaces (2000)

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by Stuart Pook , Eric Lecolinet Guy Vaysseix , Emmanuel Barillot

Venue:	In Proocedings of the 5th International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2000
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TITLE	Context and Interaction in Zoomable User Interfaces	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Stuart Pook	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	1 École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, CNRS URA 820	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	46 rue Barrault, 75013 Paris, France; 2 Infobiogen, 7 rue Guy Môquet – BP 8, 94801 Villejuif cedex, France; 3 Généthon, 1 bis rue de l’Internationale, 91000 Évry, France	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Eric Lecolinet Guy Vaysseix	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	1 École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, CNRS URA 820	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	46 rue Barrault, 75013 Paris, France; 2 Infobiogen, 7 rue Guy Môquet – BP 8, 94801 Villejuif cedex, France; 3 Généthon, 1 bis rue de l’Internationale, 91000 Évry, France	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR NAME	Emmanuel Barillot	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR AFFIL	1 École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, CNRS URA 820	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
AUTHOR ADDR	46 rue Barrault, 75013 Paris, France; 2 Infobiogen, 7 rue Guy Môquet – BP 8, 94801 Villejuif cedex, France; 3 Généthon, 1 bis rue de l’Internationale, 91000 Évry, France	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
ABSTRACT	Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs) are difficult to use on large information spaces in part because they provide insufficient context. Even after a short period of navigation users no longer know where they are in the information space nor where to find the information they are looking for. We propose a temporary in-place context aid that helps users position themselves in ZUIs. This context layer is a transparent view of the context that is drawn over the users ’ focus of attention. A second temporary in-place aid is proposed that can be used to view already visited regions of the information space. This history layer is an overlapping transparent layer that adds a history mechanism to ZUIs. We complete these orientation aids with an additional window, a hierarchy tree, that shows users the structure of the information space and their current position within it. Context layers show users their position, history layers show them how they got there, and hierarchy trees show what information is available and where it is. ZUIs, especially those that include these new orientation aids, are difficult to use with standard interaction techniques. They provide a large number of commands which must be used frequently and on a changing image. The mouse and its buttons cannot provide a rapid access to all these commands without new interaction techniques. We propose a new type of menu, a control menu, that facilitates the use of ZUIs and which we feel can also be useful in other types of applications. 1.	SVM HeaderParse 0.2
YEAR	2000	INFERENCE
VENUE	In Proocedings of the 5th International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2000	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	CONFERENCE	INFERENCE
PAGES	227--231	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	15 found	ParsCit 1.0