City lights: contextual views in minimal space

  • Authors:
  • Polle T. Zellweger;Jock D. Mackinlay;Lance Good;Mark Stefik;Patrick Baudisch

  • Affiliations:
  • PARC, Palo Alto, CA;PARC, Palo Alto, CA;PARC, Palo Alto, CA;PARC, Palo Alto, CA;PARC, Palo Alto, CA

  • Venue:
  • CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

City Lights are space-efficient fisheye techniques that provide contextual views along the borders of windows and subwindows that describe unseen objects in all directions. We present a family of techniques that use a range of graphical dimensions to depict varied information about unseen objects. City Lights can be used alone or in conjunction with scrollbars, 2D overview+detail, and interaction techniques such as zoomable user interfaces.