Referenzmodell und Machbarkeitsstudie für ein neues Zoomable User Interface Paradigma

Today’s users are confronted with increased information complexity in terms of quantity, dimensionality and heterogeneity. Nevertheless it seems that most of the concepts used in user interface design still derive from the late 60s and beginning 70s. In this thesis a new zoomable user interface paradigm named ZOIL is presented. It aims at merging the concepts of zoomable user interfaces and the more traditional direct-manipulative, object-orientated user interfaces while making use of the benefits of spatial data management. It therefore offers a widely scalable information landscape integrating geometric and semantic zooming functionality. The ZOIL paradigm does not specify a certain user interface or application but offers a consistent set of visualization and interaction technologies and therefore can serve as a flexible basis for many different kinds of applications and application domains. In order to provide proof for the conceptual and technological feasibility of this paradigm it is applied and implemented as a prototype to the application domain of personal information management. Furthermore this thesis presents a new reference model for zoomable user interfaces, which tries to combine the reference model for information visualization as defined by Card and the rendering pipeline used in 3D computer graphics. It therefore aims at offering an integrated and efficient but nevertheless flexible model for the visualization process which meets the requirements of complex zoomable user interfaces in general and the ZOIL paradigm in particular. As an introduction to the subject matter a related work part presents and discusses several applications and scientific work using similar concepts as well as user studies done in the field of zoomable user interfaces. In addition psychological and physiological aspects of the human perception, basic navigation concepts and potential input devices for zoomable user interfaces are analysed and elaborated in regard to the ZOIL paradigm. The thesis concludes with an outlook for possible benefits of future projects derived from this work.

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