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ZuiScat: querying and visualizing information spaces on personal digital assistants

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Thorsten Büring,

Harald ReitererAuthors Info & Claims

MobileHCI '05: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices & services

Pages 129 - 136

https://doi.org/10.1145/1085777.1085799

Published: 19 September 2005 Publication History

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ZuiScat is a visualization concept for querying large information spaces on Personal Digital Assistants (PDA). Retrieval results are presented in a dynamic scatterplot, which is enhanced by geometric and semantic zoom techniques to provide smooth transitions from abstract visual encodings to data content. The same visualization is also used to manage bookmarks and to serve as a powerful query history tool. User feedback suggests that ZuiScat provides intuitive and efficient data access but still needs further improvement in terms of zoom usability and visual mapping.

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ZuiScat: querying and visualizing information spaces on personal digital assistants
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Graphical user interfaces

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