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Powers of ten thousand: navigating in large information spaces

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UIST '94: Proceedings of the 7th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

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https://doi.org/10.1145/192426.192434

Published: 02 November 1994 Publication History

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How would you interactively browse a very large display space, for example, a street map of the entire United States? The traditional solution is zoom and pan. But each time a zoom-in operation takes place, the context from which it came is visually lost. Sequential applications of the zoom-in and zoom-out operations may become tedious. This paper proposes an alternative technique, the macroscope, based on zooming and planning in multiple translucent layers. A macroscope display should comfortably permit browsing continuously on a single image, or set of images in multiple resolutions, on a scale of at least 1 to 10,000.

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Powers of ten thousand: navigating in large information spaces
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
    2. Interaction paradigms
      1. Hypertext / hypermedia
  2. Visualization
    1. Visualization techniques

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November 1994

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DOI:10.1145/192426

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