Browsers with changing parts: a catalog explorer for Philip Glass' website

  • Authors:
  • Harry Hochheiser

  • Affiliations:
  • Human-Computer Interaction Lab & Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

  • Venue:
  • DIS '00 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Designing interactive systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

The development of navigational tools for a web site devoted to a catalog of musical compositions offers a variety of design challenges. A combination of techniques developed from information visualization research - including starfield displays, dynamic queries, and zoomable user interfaces (ZUIs) - was used to construct a prototype browser for possible use in a web site dedicated to the work of Philip Glass. After a discussion of the goals and potential users of the site, this paper describes several prototypes that were developed and how they informed the design of a zoomable starfield browser. Unresolved design challenges and possibilities for future work are also discussed.