Screen Real Estate Mike Cullingham
Data base navigation: an office environment for the professional Robert Spence and Mark Apperley
Specification of Document Limitations of human memory Browsing usually necessary
Office Proposal Pointing, gesturing, speaking, touching No radical change Available technology Cheap
The problem: 1 million+ documents
The Wall
Icons
Selection
Calendar
Information Levels
Generalized Fisheye Views George W. Furnas
The usual interface Small view in large structure Scroll to move view Easy to get lost Little information about global structure
Degree of Interest Display n “most interesting” points Success depends on finding appropriate DOI functions DOI fisheye (x, y) = API(x) – D(x, y)
A Priori Importance
Distance from Focus
Combined
Thresholds
Traditional Code View
Fisheye Code View
Botanical Taxonomy Results 2 Flat views 52% 1 Fisheye, 1 Flat view 64% 2 Fisheye 75%