Temporal distortion for animated transitions

  • Authors:
  • Pierre Dragicevic;Anastasia Bezerianos;Waqas Javed;Niklas Elmqvist;Jean-Daniel Fekete

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA, Orsay, France;École Centrale Paris, Paris, France;Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA;Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA;INRIA, Orsay, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Animated transitions are popular in many visual applications but they can be difficult to follow, especially when many objects move at the same time. One informal design guideline for creating effective animated transitions has long been the use of slow-in/slow-out pacing, but no empirical data exist to support this practice. We remedy this by studying object tracking performance under different conditions of temporal distortion, i.e., constant speed transitions, slow-in/slow-out, fast-in/fast-out, and an adaptive technique that slows down the visually complex parts of the animation. Slow-in/slow-out outperformed other techniques, but we saw technique differences depending on the type of visual transition.