Zoomable interfaces

Zoomable interfaces allow users access information by panning and zooming [Perlin and Fox, 1993]. Space and scale are the fundamental means of organizing the information [Furnas and Bederson, 1995, Perlin and Fox, 1993]. The most common appearance of elements is geometric zoom, but there exist more complex ones as semantic zooming [Bederson et al., 2000, Frank and Timpf, 1994, Perlin and Fox, 1993], constant density zooming [911], or non-linear panning and zooming [Furnas and Zhang, 1998, Igarashi and Hinckley, 2000]. Also, smoothness in zooming transitions have been studied: smooth zooms [Bederson et al., 2000, Guo et al., 2000, van Wijk and Nuij, 2003] and non-smooth zooms [Perlin and Fox, 1993, Schaffer et al., 1996].

[Kerren et al., 2007]

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