Adaptive runtime layout of hierarchical UI components

  • Authors:
  • Heikki Keränen;Johan Plomp

  • Affiliations:
  • VTT Electronics, Oulu, Finland;VTT Electronics, Oulu, Finland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the second Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Emerging small mobile terminals, each having a different screen size, create challenges for graphical user interface designers of multi-platform applications and services. In this paper we present a method which considers the screen size of the terminal and the currently active user interface component to divide the screen space for components at runtime. The method is demonstrated by using a modified treemap layout algorithm. The method has many advantages over existing zoomable interfaces using predefined layout including constant information density, context visibility and better suitability for screens being small and having extreme aspect ratios.