Zoomable interfaces

Zoomable interfaces allow users access information by panning and zooming [646]. Space and scale are the fundamental means of organizing the information [282,646]. The most common appearance of elements is geometric zoom, but there exist more complex ones as semantic zooming [72,267,646], constant density zooming [911], or non-linear panning and zooming [283,383]. Also, smoothness in zooming transitions have been studied: smooth zooms [72,316,853] and non-smooth zooms [646,734].

References

• [Kerren et al., 2007] Andreas Kerren, Achim Ebert, Jörg Meyer (Eds.): Human-Centered Visualization Environments, GI-Dagstuhl Research Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, March 5-8, 2006, Revised Lectures. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4417 Springer 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-71948-9, p. 27