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Pointing and beyond: an operationalization and preliminary evaluation of multi-scale searching

Authors:

Emmanuel Pietriga,

Caroline Appert,

Michel Beaudouin-LafonAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '07: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 1215 - 1224

https://doi.org/10.1145/1240624.1240808

Published: 29 April 2007 Publication History

Abstract

A number of experimental studies based on domain-specific tasks have evaluated the efficiency of navigation techniques for searching multi-scale worlds. The discrepancies among their results call for a more generic framework similar in spirit to Fitts' reciprocal pointing task, but adapted to a task that significantly differs from pure pointing. We introduce such a framework based on an abstract task and evaluate how four multi-scale navigation techniques perform in one particular multi-scale world configuration. Experimental findings indicate that, in this context, pan & zoom combined with an overview is the most efficient technique of all four, and that focus + context techniques perform better than classical pan & zoom. We relate these findings to more realistic situations, discuss their applicability, and how the framework can be used to cover a broad range of situations.

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Pointing and beyond: an operationalization and preliminary evaluation of multi-scale searching
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