A comparison of navigation techniques across different types of off-screen navigation tasks

Authors:
Grant Partridge;Mahtab Nezhadasl;Pourang Irani;Carl Gutwin
Affiliations:
University of Manitoba, Computer Science;University of Manitoba, Computer Science;University of Manitoba, Computer Science;University of Saskatchewan, Computer Science
Venue:
INTERACT'07 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction - Volume Part II
Year:
2007

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Abstract

In many systems such as PDAs, users access data through a limited viewport. This means that users have to frequently navigate to regions that are off-screen to view important content. Many techniques exist for moving to off-screen regions; However, none of these have been evaluated across a range of different types of off-screen tasks. In this video, we demonstrate the effectiveness of several major off-screen navigation techniques across a variety of tasks. We also include two newly developed techniques - WinHop and Multiscale Zoom - that were based on complementary features of existing systems. Our results suggest that integrating complementary properties from different approaches can significantly improve performance on a wide range of off-screen navigation tasks.