OrthoZoom Scroller: 1D Multi-Scale Navigation

Caroline Appert (1, 2) , Jean-Daniel Fekete (1)

1 IN-SITU - Situated interaction
2 LRI - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique

This article introduces the OrthoZoom Scroller, a novel interaction technique that improves target acquisition in very large one-dimensional spaces. The OrthoZoom Scroller requires only a mouse to perform panning and zooming in a 1D space. Panning is performed along the slider dimension while zooming is performed along the orthogonal one. We present a controlled experiment showing that the OrthoZoom Scroller is about twice as fast as Speed Dependant Automatic Zooming to perform pointing tasks whose index of difficulty is in the 10-30 bits range. We also present an application to browse large textual documents with the OrthoZoom Scroller that uses semantic zooming and snapping on the structure.

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Caroline Appert, Jean-Daniel Fekete. OrthoZoom Scroller: 1D Multi-Scale Navigation. International conference on Human factors in computing systems, 2006, Montréal, Canada. pp.21-30, ⟨10.1145/1124772.1124776⟩. ⟨inria-00538428⟩