Scented widgets : improving navigation cues with embedded visualizations

This paper presents scented widgets, graphical user interface controls enhanced with embedded visualizations that facilitate navigation in information spaces. We describe design guidelines for adding visual cues to common user interface widgets such as radio buttons, sliders, and combo boxes and con...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics. - 1996. - 13(2007), 6 vom: 01. Nov., Seite 1129-36
1. Verfasser: Willett, Wesley (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Heer, Jeffrey, Agrawala, Maneesh
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2007
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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Zusammenfassung:This paper presents scented widgets, graphical user interface controls enhanced with embedded visualizations that facilitate navigation in information spaces. We describe design guidelines for adding visual cues to common user interface widgets such as radio buttons, sliders, and combo boxes and contribute a general software framework for applying scented widgets within applications with minimal modifications to existing source code. We provide a number of example applications and describe a controlled experiment which finds that users exploring unfamiliar data make up to twice as many unique discoveries using widgets imbued with social navigation data. However, these differences equalize as familiarity with the data increases
Beschreibung:Date Completed 14.12.2007
Date Revised 30.10.2007
published: Print
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1941-0506