Usability of overview-supported zooming on small screens with regard to individual differences in spatial ability

Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 233-240

  Büring, Thorsten ^a   Gerken, Jens ^a   Reiterer, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Overview plus detail; Scatterplot; Small screen; Spatial ability; Zoom

Indexed keywords

OVERVIEW PLUS DETAIL; SPATIAL ABILITY; TASK COMPLETION;

DATA REDUCTION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS; USER INTERFACES;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 33845620845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1133265.1133310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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