speed-dependent automatic zooming for browsing large documents（speed-dependent自动缩放浏览大型文档）.pdfVIP

Speed-dependent Automatic Zooming for Browsing Large Documents Takeo Igarashi Ken Hinckley Computer Science Department , Microsoft Research Brown University One Microsoft Way, 119 Waterman Street, Redmond, Providence, RI 02912, USA WA 98052-6399, USA +1-401-863-7651, +1-425-703-9065 takeo@ kenh@ ABSTRACT We propose a navigation technique for browsing large documents that integrates rate-based scrolling with automatic zooming. The view automatically zooms out when the user scrolls rapidly so that the perceptual scrolling speed in screen space remains constant. As a result, the user can efficiently and smoothly navigate through a large document without becoming disoriented by extremely fast visual flow. By incorporating semantic zooming techniques, the user can smoothly access a global overview of the document during rate-based scrolling. We implemented several prototype systems, including a web browser, map viewer, image browser, and dictionary viewer. An informal usability study suggests that for a document browsing task, most subjects prefer automatic zooming and the technique exhibits approximately equal performance time to scroll bars , suggesting that automatic zooming is a helpful alternative totraditional scrolling when the zoomed out view provides appr