City lights: contextual views in minimal space

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. Keywords Visual information workspaces, spatial hypertext, zoomable user interfaces, contextual views, overview+detail, fisheye views, focus+context, scrollbars

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Polle Zellweger, Jock D. Mackinlay, Lance Good, Mark Stefik, Patrick Baudisch
• Keywords: CHI 2003, Contextual Views, Human Computer Interaction, Space-efficient Fisheye Techniques, Zoomable User Interfaces