Navigating hierarchically clustered networks through fisheye and full-zoom methods
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Moticons: detection, distraction and task
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Notification user interfaces
Does Animation Help Users Build Mental Maps of Spatial Information?
INFOVIS '99 Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
DateLens: A fisheye calendar interface for PDAs
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
A simple movement time model for scrolling
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Benefits of animated scrolling
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
An Evaluation of Content Browsing Techniques for Hierarchical Space-Filling Visualizations
INFOVIS '05 Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization
Internet delay effects: how users perceive quality, organization, and ease of use of information
CHI EA '97 CHI '97 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Can smooth view transitions facilitate perceptual constancy in node-link diagrams?
GI '07 Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2007
Using text animated transitions to support navigation in document histories
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2011
The "Map" in the mental map: Experimental results in dynamic graph drawing
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Assessing and improving 3D rotation transition in dense visualizations
BCS-HCI '13 Proceedings of the 27th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference
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Zooming interfaces use animated transitions to smoothly shift the users view between different scales of the workspace. Animated transitions assist in preserving the spatial relationships between views. However, they also increase the overall interaction time. To identify whether zooming interfaces should take advantage of animations, we carried out one experiment that explores the effects of smooth transitions on a spatial task. With metro maps, users were asked to identify the number of metro stops between different subway lines with and without animated zoom-in/out transitions. The results of the experiment show that animated transitions can have significant benefits on user performance - participants in the animation conditions were twice as fast and overall made fewer errors than in the non-animated conditions. In addition, short animations were found to be as effective as long ones, suggesting that some of the costs of animations can be avoided. Users also preferred interacting with animated transitions than without. Our study gives empirical evidence on the benefits of animated transitions in zooming interfaces.