Mobile liquid 2D scatter space (ML2DSS)

Abstract

This (video-) paper describes a user interface concept, which facilitates browsing of comparably large amounts of information on small screens. The viewing concept is based on a visually optimized star field display ([1] Ahlberg & Shneiderman 1994) and is introducing new concepts like liquid browsing (an expansion lens with pressure controlled magnetic force simulation), selection based filtering and representation manipulation, multimotion behavior tagging and continuous state animation. All this creates a very versatile information space with a liquid-like look and feel, which can be used in a very intuitive way, providing all the advantages of a mature interactive scatter plot and can easily be scaled to different screen sizes without any adjustment efforts. This paper focuses on visual design and interaction details and emphasizes the importance of the visual interactive quality for mobile information visualization.

Toward an articulation of interaction esthetics

“…Figure 2 shows Liquid Browsing (Waldeck and Balfanz, 2004), which must be regarded as a highly pliable approach to interactive information visualization. The data in the example shown here is a movie database, probably chosen as an homage to the seminal Maryland work on dynamic queries where the design ideal of pliability was first formulated, albeit under the label of »tight coupling« (Ahlberg & Shneiderman, 1994).…”

Music Recommendation Mapping and Interface Based on Structural Network Entropy

“…This technique is very similar to a class of techniques collectively known as liquid browsing [3]. The motivation for the interactive implementation is to allow a user to recognize Figure 2.…”

Liquid 2D Scatter Space for File System Browsing

“…The "Liquid 2D Scatter Space" [1] makes it possible to perceive very high information densities with multiple dimensions (2-7) of metadata simultaneously.…”

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This (video-) paper describes a user interface concept, which facilitates multidimensional visual queries, filtering and browsing of the file system at the same time by means of the "Liquid Scatter Space" (LSS) concept ([1] Waldeck 2004) .The UI concept is based on an advanced star field display ([2] Ahlberg & Shneiderman 1994) using liquid browsing [1] and selection based (sketch-) queries. It allows realtime search and browsing at the same time (integrated into one single user interface) and can visualize the most important file system meta data dimensions simultaneously: 1. filename, 2. creation/modification date, 3. filesize, 4. filetype and 5. label.

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“…The UI concept is based on an advanced star field display ([2] Ahlberg & Shneiderman 1994) using liquid browsing [1] and selection based (sketch-) queries. It allows realtime search and browsing at the same time (integrated into one single user interface) and can visualize the most important file system meta data dimensions simultaneously: 1. filename, 2. creation/modification date, 3. filesize, 4. filetype and 5. label.…”