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The continuous zoom: a constrained fisheye technique for viewing and navigating large information spaces

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Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology archive
Proceedings of the 8th annual ACM symposium on User interface and software technology table of contents

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Pages: 207 - 215

Year of Publication: 1995

ISBN:0-89791-709-X

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Lyn Bartram	Graphics and Multimedia Research Laboratory, Center for Systems Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 Canada
Albert Ho	Reboot Inc., Vancouver, B.C. and Graphics and Multimedia Research Laboratory, Center for Systems Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 Canada
John Dill	Graphics and Multimedia Research Laboratory, Center for Systems Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 Canada
Frank Henigman	Graphics and Multimedia Research Laboratory, Center for Systems Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6 Canada

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SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)

General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Human Factors, Management, Performance, Theory

Keywords:
fisheye view, graphical user interface, hierarchical network, information space, information visualization, navigation, supervisory control systems

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Lyn Bartram: colleagues

Albert Ho: colleagues

John Dill: colleagues

Frank Henigman: colleagues

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