Zooming versus multiple window interfaces: Cognitive costs of visual comparisons

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 179-209

  Plumlee, Matthew D ^a,b   Ware, Colin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Focus in context; Interaction design; Multiple windows; Multiscale; Multiscale comparison; Visual working memory; Zooming

Indexed keywords

FOCUS IN CONTEXT; INTERACTION DESIGN; MULTIPLE WINDOWS; MULTISCALE COMPARISON; VISUAL WORKING MEMORY; ZOOMING;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 33749602671     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 10730516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1165734.1165736     Document Type: Article

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