Nested user interface components

Perlin, Ken; Meyer, Jonathan

doi:10.1145/320719.322578

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“…Scale is explicitly described using the vertical axis of the diagram, thus an object is represented at different scales. Perlin and Meyer combined ZUIs with nested UI widgets and developed recursively nested user interfaces [7]. The major goal of this approach was to present an easy-to-navigate user interface by a layered structure of controls.…”

Section: Zoomable Interfaces: Basics and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Zoomable User Interface for Presenting Hierarchical Diagrams on Large Screens

Geiger

Reckter

Dumitrescu³

et al. 2009

Human-Computer Interaction. Novel Interaction Methods and Techniques

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We present the design, implementation and initial evaluation of a zoomable interface dedicated to present a large hierarchical design model of a complex mechatronic system. The large hierarchical structure of the model is illustrated by means of a visual notation and consists of over 800 elements. An efficient presentation of this complex model is realized by means of a zoomable user interface that is rendered on a large Virtual Reality wall with a high resolution (3860 x 2160). We assume that this visualization set-up combined with dedicated interaction techniques for selection and navigation reduces the cognitive workload of a passive audience and supports the understanding of complex hierarchical structures. To validate this assumption we have designed a small experiment that compares the traditional visualization techniques PowerPoint and paper sheets with this new presentation form.

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Section: Zoomable Interfaces: Basics and Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Zoomable User Interface for Presenting Hierarchical Diagrams on Large Screens

Geiger

Reckter

Dumitrescu³

et al. 2009

Human-Computer Interaction. Novel Interaction Methods and Techniques

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“…These include the original Pad system [22], and more recently Pad++ [11,12,14], as well as other systems [15,23,24], and a few commercial ZUIs that are not widely accessible [1,25;Chapter 6,30]. All of these previous ZUI systems are implemented in terms of a hierarchy of objects.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toolkit design for interactive structured graphics

Bederson

Grosjean

Meyer

2004

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

222

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In this paper, we analyze three approaches to building graphical applications with rich user interfaces. We compare hand-crafted custom code to polylithic and monolithic toolkit-based solutions. Polylithic toolkits follow a design philosophy similar to 3D scene graphs supported by toolkits including Java3D and OpenInventor. Monolithic toolkits are more akin to 2D Graphical User Interface toolkits such as Swing or MFC. We describe Jazz (a polylithic toolkit) and Piccolo (a monolithic toolkit), each of which we built to support interactive 2D structured graphics applications in general, and Zoomable User Interface applications in particular. We examine the trade-offs of each approach in terms of performance, memory requirements, and programmability. We conclude that, for most applications, a monolithic-based toolkit is more effective than either a hand-crafted or a polylithic solution for building interactive structured graphics, but that each has advantages in certain situations.

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“…These include the original Pad system [20], and more recently Pad++ [6,7,8], as well as other systems [13,21][ 22], and a few commercial ZUIs that are not widely accessible [3, 4, 23; Chapter 6].…”

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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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Nested user interface components

Cited by 12 publications

References 23 publications

A Zoomable User Interface for Presenting Hierarchical Diagrams on Large Screens

A Zoomable User Interface for Presenting Hierarchical Diagrams on Large Screens

Toolkit design for interactive structured graphics

Jazz: An Extensible Zoomable User Interface Graphics Toolkit in Java

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