A zooming Web browser
- New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque, NM (United States). Dept. of Computer Science
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
We are developing a prototype zooming World-Wide Web browser within Pad++, a multiscale graphical environment. Instead of having a single page visible at a time, multiple pages and the links between them are depicted on a large zoomable information surface. Pages are scaled so that the page in focus is clearly readable with connected pages shown at smaller scales to provide context. We quantitatively compared performance with the Pad++ Web browser and Netscape in several different scenarios. We examined how quickly users could answer questions about a specific Web site designed for this test. Initially we found that subjects answered questions slightly slower with Pad++ than with Netscape. After analyzing the results of this study, we implemented several changes to the Pad++ Web browser, and repeated one Pad++ condition. After improvements were made to the Pad++ browser, subjects using Pad++ answered questions 23% faster than those using Netscape.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Financial Management and Controller, Washington, DC (United States); Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, VA (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 454001
- Report Number(s):
- SAND-96-2609C; CONF-970359-1; ON: DE97000664; CNN: Contract N66001-94-C-6039
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: CHI `97: computer human interface, Atlanta, GA (United States), 22-27 Mar 1997; Other Information: PBD: [1996]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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