Customized Slider Bars for Adjusting Multi-dimension Parameter Sets

Abstract. We propose a meta user interface to design the user interface to tune vector-valued parameters of a given parametrized model. In our framework, the user defines a desired number of slider bars to control the parameters. The number of slider bars is independent from the dimension of the original parametrized model, which is important to design perceptually plausible user interface. Those slider bars correspond to straight axes in the parameter space. If the axes are not perpendicular each other, change of the value of one slider bar affects other slider bars, which significantly degrades the usability of the system. Our system can minimize this effect by simply enabling the lock attribute of each slider bar, which orthogonalizes the corresponding axes in the parameter domain. We show an image color adjustment software as our application example. However, the underlying idea of our system can be applied to any parametrized models.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: SG
• Authors: Shigeru Owada, Makoto Okabe, Takeo Igarashi, Frank Nielsen, Norimichi Tsumura
• Keywords: Parametrized Models, SG 2007, Slider Bar, User Interface