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Content-aware scrolling

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Edward W. Ishak,

Steven K. FeinerAuthors Info & Claims

UIST '06: Proceedings of the 19th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

Pages 155 - 158

https://doi.org/10.1145/1166253.1166277

Published: 15 October 2006 Publication History

Abstract

Scrolling is used to navigate large information spaces on small screens, but is often too restrictive or cumbersome to use for particular types of content, such as multi-page, multi-column documents. To address this problem, we introduce content-aware scrolling (CAS), an approach that takes into account various characteristics of document content to determine scrolling direction, speed, and zoom. We also present the CAS widget, which supports scrolling through a content-aware path using traditional scrolling methods, demonstrating the advantages of making a traditional technique content-aware.

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Index Terms

Content-aware scrolling
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens
    2. Interaction paradigms
      1. Graphical user interfaces
  2. Interaction design
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Window managers

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UIST '06: Proceedings of the 19th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

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ISBN:1595933131

DOI:10.1145/1166253

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