CHI '86 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Graphical fisheye views of graphs
CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Stretching the rubber sheet: a metaphor for viewing large layouts on small screens
UIST '93 Proceedings of the 6th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Developing a variable-scale map projection for urban areas
Computers & Geosciences
A focus+context technique based on hyperbolic geometry for visualizing large hierarchies
CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Tilting operations for small screen interfaces
Proceedings of the 9th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Fisheyes are good for large steering tasks
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
GI '04 Proceedings of the 2004 Graphics Interface Conference
A comparison of fisheye lenses for interactive layout tasks
GI '04 Proceedings of the 2004 Graphics Interface Conference
Allowing camera tilts for document navigation in the standard GUI: a discussion and an experiment
Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
A virtual 3D mobile guide in the INTERMEDIA project
The Visual Computer: International Journal of Computer Graphics
Navitime: Supporting Pedestrian Navigation in the Real World
IEEE Pervasive Computing
A preventing method for overlapping focuses in a Focus+Glue+Context Map
International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence
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We propose a mobile Web map interface that is based on a metaphor of the Wired Fisheye Lens. The interface was developed by using improved fisheye views (Focus+Glue+Context map). When a user wants to obtain information on both the details of the target area and the geographical relation between the present location and the target area by using existing Web map services, he/she has to scroll maps and change the scale of the maps many times. These operations result in a large cognitive cost for users. The Wired Fisheye Lens enables users to easily search an area surrounding the present location since it has the following features: 1) The Focus+Glue+Context map enables users to view both a large-scale map (Focus) and a small-scale map (Context) without changing the scales of the maps; 2) The posture sensor enables users to search for details of the surrounding area by tilting, shaking, and looking through the fisheye lens; 3) The Focus is moved by considering it to be a fisheye lens connected with the present location by a rubber wire on the map. Even if the lens approaches the edge of the screen, it can be kept within the screen by scaling down the Context as if the lens were pulled in by its rubber wire and as if the map were a rubber sheet and pulled in by the lens. As a result, the user can easily navigate through the area surrounding the present location while keeping the Focus within the map. These features enable users to find the target quickly. We developed the Web-based mobile map system that uses commercial maps that are utilized by Yahoo Japan. We confirmed the advantages of the proposed system by evaluation experiments. The new system will be able to contribute to the novel mobile Web map services with fisheye views for mobile terminals such as cellular phones.