Implementing a zooming User Interface: experience building Pad++

Bederson, Ben; Meyer, Jonathan

doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-024x(199808)28:10<1101::aid-spe190>3.0.co;2-v

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“…We are interested in understanding animation because for the past several years, we have been exploring Zoomable User Interfaces [4,5,6,7,15,17]. Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs) are a visualization technique that provides access to spatially organized information.…”

Section: Zoomable User Interfacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Animation Help Users Build Mental Maps of Spatial Information?

Bederson

Boltman

2003

The Craft of Information Visualization

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We examine how animating a viewpoint change in a spatial information system affects a user's ability to build a mental map of the information in the space. We found that animation improves users' ability to reconstruct the information space, with no penalty on task performance time. We believe that this study provides strong evidence for adding animated transitions in many applications with fixed spatial data where the user navigates around the data space.

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Section: Zoomable User Interfacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Animation Help Users Build Mental Maps of Spatial Information?

Bederson

Boltman

2003

The Craft of Information Visualization

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“…The semantic data visualizer uses a layered approach that adds presentation specifications to desktop data using two concepts called Semantic Lens and Presentation Lens by extending our previous work and the work by others [3,17,51]. The visualizer can filter and aggregate data stored in RDF format.…”

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A layered framework supporting personal information integration and application design for the semantic desktop

Cruz

Xiao

2008

The VLDB Journal

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Abstract. With the development of inexpensive storage devices, space usage is no longer a bottleneck for computer users. However, the increasingly large amount of personal information poses a critical problem to those users: traditional file organization in hierarchical directories may not be suited to the effective management of personal information because it ignores the semantic associations therein and bears no connection with the applications that users will run. To address such limitations, we present our vision of a semantic desktop, which relies on the use of ontologies to annotate and organize data and on the concept of personal information application (PIA), which is associated with a user's task. The PIA designer is the tool that is provided for building a variety of PIAs consisting of views (e.g., text, list, table, graph), which are spatially arranged and display interrelated fragments of the overall personal information. The semantic organization of the data follows a layered architecture that models separately the personal information, the domain data, and the application data. The network of concepts that ensues from extensive annotation and explicit associations lends itself well to rich browsing capabilities and to the formulation of expressive databaselike queries. These queries are also the basis for the interaction among views of the PIAs in the same desktop or in networked desktops. In the latter case, the concept of desktop service provides for a semantic platform for the integration of information across different desktops and the web. In this paper, we present in detail the semantic organization of the information, the overall system architecture and implementation aspects, queries and their processing, PIAs and the PIA designer, including usability studies on the designer, and the concepts of semantic navigation in a desktop and of interoperation in a network of desktops.

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“…ZUIs have a number of unique requirements, such as the need for "semantic zooming" where more detail is displayed as the scene is zoomed in, and the need for multiple views of the same scene at different magnifications. In practice, implementing a general purpose widget for supporting ZUI applications is very hard [7].…”

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“…Typical 3D renderers, such as OpenGL, support very efficient image and triangle rendering, but do not have direct support for high quality scalable fonts, 2D complex polygons, line styles, and other standard business graphics. We have discussed these issues in depth previously [7]. We are also interested in developing scene graph nodes that apply to 2D application domains.…”

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Jazz: An Extensible Zoomable User Interface Graphics Toolkit in Java

Bederson

Meyer

Good

2003

The Craft of Information Visualization

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The public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden, to Department of Defense, Washington Headquarters Services, Directorate for Information PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)University of SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY ACRONYM(S)AFRL/SNAR This report contains color. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) ABSTRACT (Maximum 200 Words)In this paper we investigate the use of scene graphs as a general approach for implementing two-dimensional (2D) graphical applications, and in particular Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs). Scene graphs are typically found in three-dimensional (3D) graphics packages such as Sun's Java3D and SGI's OpenInventor. They have not been widely adopted by 2D graphical user interface toolkits.To explore the effectiveness of scene graph techniques, we have developed Jazz, a general-purpose 2D scene graph toolkit. Jazz is implemented in Java using Java2D, and runs on all platforms that support Java 2. This paper describes Jazz and the lessons we learned using Jazz for ZUIs. It also discusses how 2D scene graphs can be applied to other application areas. SUBJECT TERMSZoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs), Animation, Graphics, User Interface Management Systems (UIMS), Pad++, Jazz ABSTRACTIn this paper we investigate the use of scene graphs as a general approach for implementing two-dimensional (2D) graphical applications, and in particular Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs). Scene graphs are typically found in three-dimensional (3D) graphics packages such as Sun's Java3D and SGI's OpenInventor. They have not been widely adopted by 2D graphical user interface toolkits.To explore the effectiveness of scene graph techniques, we have developed Jazz, a general-purpose 2D scene graph toolkit. Jazz is implemented in Java using Java2D, and runs on all platforms that support Java 2. This paper describes Jazz and the lessons we learned using Jazz for ZUIs. It also discusses how 2D scene graphs can be applied to other application areas.

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Implementing a zooming User Interface: experience building Pad++

Cited by 33 publications

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Does Animation Help Users Build Mental Maps of Spatial Information?

Does Animation Help Users Build Mental Maps of Spatial Information?

A layered framework supporting personal information integration and application design for the semantic desktop

Jazz: An Extensible Zoomable User Interface Graphics Toolkit in Java

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