Mobile liquid 2d scatter space (ml2dss.pdfVIP

Executive Summary This (video-) paper describes a user interface concept, which facilitates browsing of comparably large amounts of information on small screens. The viewing concept is based on a visually optimized star field display ([1] Ahlberg Shneiderman 1994) and is introducing new concepts like liquid browsing (an expansion lens with pressure controlled magnetic force simulation), selection based filtering and represen- tation manipulation, multimotion behavior tagging and continuous state animation. All this creates a very versatile information space with a liquid-like look and feel, which can be used in a very intuitive way, providing all the advantages of a mature interactive scatter plot and can easily be scaled to different screen sizes without any adjustment efforts. This paper focuses on visual design and interaction details and emphasizes the importance of the visual interactive quality for mobile information visualization. Mobile Liquid 2D Scatter Space (ML2DSS) A visual interactive information space (ispace) for displaying large amounts of information and allowing simple vision-based knowledge discovery on small screen sizes Carsten Waldeck, Dirk Balfanz ZGDV - Computer Graphics Center, Dept. Z3: Mobile Information Visualization and 1. Introduction and Problem Description In Mobile Information Visualization, one of the big issues is the problem of small and a multitude of different screen sizes. In spite of diverse screen concepts like roll up displays, or digital paper, it is most likely that we will continue to battle with the limited screen spaces of handheld computers for quite some time. Further, the related issue of constantly having to adapt the view to different screen sizes presents a complex problem. A common table view on a Pocket PC or PDA allows us to only look at 10-20 objects at a time without scrolling, allowing to sort and compare according to one single criterion. An interactive 2D scatter plot approach