Zooming User Interfaces: Past, Present and Future
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Ben Bederson is a professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Maryland who studies human-computer interaction and zooming user interfaces (ZUIs). In this document, he discusses several themes related to ZUIs and innovation. He provides examples of early ZUIs from the 1990s and examines why some succeeded while others failed. He also explores what constitutes innovation, noting that new ideas are often built upon prior work and existing technologies. The document considers challenges with ZUIs and what factors have contributed to more successful implementations of zooming interfaces.
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- 1. Ben Bederson Human-Computer Interaction Lab Computer Science Dept. UMIACS / iSchool University of Maryland
- 2. Problem: Show More Than Fits on the screen Solution categories: Scroll Multiple pages (tabs, link, search …) Denser displays (info vis) Fisheye Zooming Is always a problem – and worse on small screens
- 3. Zooming Examples OS X Expose iPhone Google Maps Adobe Photoshop Theme 1 Are ZUIs a success? When do / don’t they work? Theme 2 How does innovation work?
- 4. Some early ZUIs Pad 1993 Pad++ 1994 Pa3D 1993
- 6. Partial Timeline PadDraw PadPrints PhotoMesa PPTPlex KidPad CounterPoint Prezi Google Pivot Maps ZoomCanvas Space-Scale Diagrams Geometric Scaling SDAZ Semantic Zooming Portals Lenses SVG .NET Pa3D Java2D Sea Dragon Pad Pad++ Jazz Piccolo Cocoa WPF iPhone 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10
- 8. Animated Presentations KidPad - 1997 CounterPoint - 2001 Microsoft PPTPlex - 2008 Prezi - 2009
- 9. PhotoMesa First attempt at building polished consumer ZUI Object-based zooming Domain-specific navigation Domain-specific semantic zoom Auto-layout Perf tricks Metadata & search Mobile version
- 11. iPhoto & Picasa
- 12. Other Full Screen ZUIs Canvas for OneNote Seadragon (http://zoom.it)
- 13. Problems …
- 14. What Happened? “Eye candy” that doesn’t add much Don’t scale well Datasets aren’t persistent Navigation mechanisms difficult Spatial memory not as good as hoped 2D layouts hard to scan People don’t know where to zoom Difficult to author => Instead simple linear structures hierarchical structures geographic systems search
- 15. More Successful ZUIs Google Maps Wired on iPad
- 16. Wired Magazine on iPad
- 17. Mobile Zooming New interaction for touch screen Good for simple transitions – what else? [Karlson, Bederson & SanGiovanni, CHI 2005]
- 18. Zumobi ZoomCanvas (2009) Zumobi ZoomCanvas Technology
- 19. ZUI Benefit Engaging Feels natural Improves some task performance Hurts other tasks More creative potential People like overviews Animation effective Structured content useful
- 20. Challenges Too complex Hard to scale Hard to design & author Temporal separation requires STM to integrate multiple views Spatial memory & spatial navigation limited Navigation controls non-standard, tricky Remaining technical challenges
- 21. What is Innovation? Dictionary: "A new method, idea, product" "A creation resulting from study and experimentation" "The act of starting something for the first time" "Producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before"
- 22. "There is nothing new under the sun” -- Ecclesiastes 1:9 Movie themes: Good vs. Evil Love conquers all Individual v. society Loss of innocence Man v. nature
- 23. How Do You Innovate? Bolt from the blue? Ideas when you … Read the literature Competitive analysis Solve real problems Use available technologies Consider cost => Innovations happen in a cultural context
- 25. Ad Campaign 2001
- 26. Palm Pilot 1996
- 27. Apple Newton Palm Pilot 1993 1996
- 28. Dynabook Apple Newton Palm Pilot 1980’s 1993 1996
- 29. Dynabook Apple Newton Palm Pilot 1980’s 1993 1996
- 30. Is Nothing Innovative? Of course not The point is that innovation is more subtle than it first appears
- 31. When is Copying Fair? Laws give us the societally accepted answer: Fine line between protecting invention Always... and stopping creative innovation Except when protected by • Copyright (concrete expression) • Trademark (image, logo, short sequence of words) • Trade secret (most things you don't tell others) • Patent (processes, things, designs)
- 32. Patent Prosecution Prior art Invention
- 33. Patent Prosecution Prior art Invention
- 34. Patent Prosecution Prior art Invention
- 35. Patent Prosecution Prior art Invention Prior art
- 36. Patent Prosecution Prior art Invention Prior art
- 37. Questions? Benjamin B. Bederson Computer Science Department Human-Computer Interaction Lab Institute for Advanced Computer Studies University of Maryland www.cs.umd.edu/~bederson @bederson