A review of overview+detail, zooming, and focus+context interfaces Export

@article{CockburnCSUR2008, abstract = {There are many interface schemes that allow users to work at, and move between, focused and contextual views of a dataset. We review and categorize these schemes according to the interface mechanisms used to separate and blend views. The four approaches are overview+detail, which uses a spatial separation between focused and contextual views; zooming, which uses a temporal separation; focus+context, which minimizes the seam between views by displaying the focus within the context; and cue-based techniques which selectively highlight or suppress items within the information space. Critical features of these categories, and empirical evidence of their success, are discussed. The aim is to provide a succinct summary of the state-of-the-art, to illuminate both successful and unsuccessful interface strategies, and to identify potentially fruitful areas for further work.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Cockburn, Andy and Karlson, Amy and Bederson, Benjamin B.}, citeulike-article-id = {3875073}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1456650.1456652}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1456650.1456652}, doi = {10.1145/1456650.1456652}, issn = {0360-0300}, journal = {ACM Comput. Surv.}, keywords = {computer-science, csur, software-engineering, user-interfaces}, number = {1}, pages = {1--31}, posted-at = {2009-01-12 07:54:43}, priority = {3}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {A review of overview+detail, zooming, and focus+context interfaces}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1456650.1456652}, volume = {41}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - CockburnCSUR2008 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3875073 N2 - There are many interface schemes that allow users to work at, and move between, focused and contextual views of a dataset. We review and categorize these schemes according to the interface mechanisms used to separate and blend views. The four approaches are overview+detail, which uses a spatial separation between focused and contextual views; zooming, which uses a temporal separation; focus+context, which minimizes the seam between views by displaying the focus within the context; and cue-based techniques which selectively highlight or suppress items within the information space. Critical features of these categories, and empirical evidence of their success, are discussed. The aim is to provide a succinct summary of the state-of-the-art, to illuminate both successful and unsuccessful interface strategies, and to identify potentially fruitful areas for further work. IS - 1 JF - ACM Comput. Surv. SN - 0360-0300 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 31 TI - A review of overview+detail, zooming, and focus+context interfaces PB - ACM VL - 41 SP - 1 KW - computer-science KW - csur KW - software-engineering KW - user-interfaces AU - Cockburn, Andy AU - Karlson, Amy AU - Bederson, Benjamin PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1456650.1456652 ER -