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Fredrik Gundelsweiler, Thomas Memmel, Harald Reiterer

ZUI Concepts for Navigating and Searching Complex Information Spaces

Keywords: Zoomable User Interface, Navigation, Searching and Browsing, Interactive Web Applications, Usability

Today′s complex information spaces have enormous requirements concerning the human computer interface design. The quantity, multidimensionality and multimedia-support of information spaces make it necessary to think about new ways for search, exploration and navigation. Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs) provide new possibilities for a usable application design. With our ZUI design studies we present some scalable interaction concepts for navigation and search, well suited for conventional and web 2.0 applications. We think that ZUIs with a flexible information presentation, semantic zooming and navigation by zooming, panning and searching, support a fast and usable access to the contents of complex information spaces.

i-com, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag

Print ISSN: 1618-162X
Volume: 06, 01/2007
Pages: 038 - 047

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