Halo: a technique for visualizing off-screen objects Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:587766, abstract = {As users pan and zoom, display content can disappear into off-screen space, particularly on small-screen devices. The clipping of locations, such as relevant places on a map, can make spatial cognition tasks harder. Halo is a visualization technique that supports spatial cognition by showing users the location of off-screen objects. Halo accomplishes this by surrounding off-screen objects with rings that are just large enough to reach into the border region of the display window. From the portion of the ring that is visible on-screen, users can infer the off-screen location of the object at the center of the ring. We report the results of a user study comparing Halo with an arrow-based visualization technique with respect to four types of map-based route planning tasks. When using the Halo interface, users completed tasks 16-33\% faster, while there were no significant differences in error rate for three out of four tasks in our study.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Baudisch, Patrick and Rosenholtz, Ruth}, booktitle = {CHI '03: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {587766}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=642695}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/642611.642695}, doi = {10.1145/642611.642695}, isbn = {1-58113-630-7}, keywords = {navigation, off-screen}, location = {Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA}, pages = {481--488}, posted-at = {2006-04-15 18:00:02}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Halo: a technique for visualizing off-screen objects}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/642611.642695}, year = {2003} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:587766 L3 - citeulike-article-id:587766 N2 - As users pan and zoom, display content can disappear into off-screen space, particularly on small-screen devices. The clipping of locations, such as relevant places on a map, can make spatial cognition tasks harder. Halo is a visualization technique that supports spatial cognition by showing users the location of off-screen objects. Halo accomplishes this by surrounding off-screen objects with rings that are just large enough to reach into the border region of the display window. From the portion of the ring that is visible on-screen, users can infer the off-screen location of the object at the center of the ring. We report the results of a user study comparing Halo with an arrow-based visualization technique with respect to four types of map-based route planning tasks. When using the Halo interface, users completed tasks 16-33% faster, while there were no significant differences in error rate for three out of four tasks in our study. CY - Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA SN - 1-58113-630-7 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 488 TI - Halo: a technique for visualizing off-screen objects PB - ACM T2 - CHI '03: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems SP - 481 KW - navigation KW - off-screen AU - Baudisch, Patrick AU - Rosenholtz, Ruth PY - 2003/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/642611.642695 ER -