Sigma lenses: Focus-context transitions combining space, time and translucence

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1343-1352

  Pietriga, Emmanuel ^a,b   Appert, Caroline ^a,b  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique   (France)

Author keywords

Controlled experiment; Fisheye lenses; Focus + context; Focus targeting; Multi scale interfaces; Translucence

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; EXPERIMENTS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS;

CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; FISHEYE LENSES; FOCUS + CONTEXT; FOCUS TARGETING; MULTI-SCALE INTERFACES; TRANSLUCENCE;

LENSES;

EID: 57649195785     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357264     Document Type: Conference Paper

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