Paper Info
Title
An evaluation of pan & zoom and rubber sheet navigation with and without an overview
Abstract
We present a study that evaluates conventional Pan and Zoom Navigation and Rubber Sheet Navigation, a rectilinear Focus+Context technique. Each of the two navigation techniques was evaluated both with and without an overview. All interfaces guaranteed that regions of interest would remain visible, at least as a compressed landmark, independent of navigation actions. Interfaces implementing these techniques were used by 40 subjects to perform a task that involved navigating a large hierarchical tree dataset and making topological comparisons between nodes in the tree. Our results show that Pan and Zoom Navigation was significantly faster and required less mental effort than Rubber Sheet Navigation, independent of the presence or absence of an overview. Also, overviews did not appear to improve performance, but were still perceived as beneficial by users. We discuss the implications of our task and guaranteed visibility on the results and the limitations of our study, and we propose preliminary design guidelines and recommendations for future work.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1145/1124772.1124775
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
conventional pan,rubber sheet navigation,future work,large hierarchical tree dataset,mental effort,navigation action,context technique,guaranteed visibility,zoom navigation,navigation technique,evaluation,information visualization,region of interest,navigation
Mental effort,Computer vision,Visibility,Information visualization,Computer science,Zoom,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,Mobile robot navigation,Landmark,Multimedia
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-59593-372-7
45
1.71
References 
Authors
25
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dmitry Nekrasovski1985.99
Adam Bodnar21066.77
Joanna McGrenere398593.42
Francois Guimbretière4125783.50
Tamara Munzner52562147.34