Allowing camera tilts for document navigation in the standard GUI: a discussion and an experiment

Yves Guiard (1) , Olivier Chapuis (2, 3) , Yangzhou Du (2, 3) , Michel Beaudouin-Lafon (2, 3)

1 ISM - Institut des Sciences du Mouvement Etienne Jules Marey
2 IN-SITU - Situated interaction
3 LRI - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique

The current GUI is like a flight simulator whose camera points fixedly at right angle to the document, thus preventing users from looking ahead while navigating. We argue that perspective viewing of usual planar documents can help navigation. We analyze the scale implosion problem that arises with tilted cameras and we report the data of a formal experiment on document navigation with perspective views.

Keywords: camera tilt; fitts' law; multiscale document navigation; perspective viewing

Domains: Human-Computer Interaction [cs.HC]

Yves Guiard, Olivier Chapuis, Yangzhou Du, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon. Allowing camera tilts for document navigation in the standard GUI: a discussion and an experiment. AVI '06: Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, May 2006, Venezia, Italy. pp.241-244, ⟨10.1145/1133265.1133312⟩. ⟨hal-00539565⟩