User interfaces for browsing and navigation of continuous multimedia data

Browsing continuous multimedia data is very important, for example, to find a particular information in a very long document or to get a first quick overview of the content of some unknown data. Unfortunately, common interfaces do not always support users in the best possible way for this. In this paper, we present the results of a pilot study we did with some alternative user interfaces for (visual) browsing and navigation of continuous multimedia data. In particular, we focus on fine granular navigation which is critical in case of continuous data.