An efficient document browsing method with floating diagram window on mobile device

Authors:
Yu Shibuya;Kazunobu Nagata;Kazuyoshi Murata
Affiliations:
Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Kyoto, Japan;Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Kyoto, Japan;Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Kyoto, Japan
Venue:
HCII'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction: towards mobile and intelligent interaction environments - Volume Part III
Year:
2011

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Abstract

This paper proposes an efficient method to browse the document including diagrams on mobile devices equipped with touch screen. With the method, the user can pull the referenced diagram close to the referrer sentence and browse the pulled-in diagram and the document simultaneously. The pulled-in diagram is displayed in the floating window overlapping the document. Both the pulled-in diagram and the underlying document are able to be scrolled and zoomed in/out by the user independently of each other. From the experiment, it is found that the proposed method is efficient for operation on mobile devices and the method is viewed very positively by the participants.