A Zoomable Product Browser for Elastic Displays

Mathias Müller, Mandy Keck, Thomas Gründer, Natalie Hube, Rainer Groh: A Zoomable Product Browser for Elastic Displays. Proceedings xCoAx 2017, 5th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Lisbon, Portugal, 2017.

Abstract

In this paper, we present an interaction and visualization concept for elastic displays. The interaction concept was inspired by the search process of a rummage table to explore a large set of product data. The basic approach uses a similarity-based search pattern – based on a small set of items, the user refines the search result by examining similar items and exchanging them with items from the current result. A physically-based approach is used to interact with the data by deforming the surface of the elastic display. The presented visualization concept uses glyphs to directly compare items at a glance. Zoomable UI techniques controlled by the deformation of the elastic surface allow to display different levels of detail for each item.

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@conference{zoomPB,
title = {A Zoomable Product Browser for Elastic Displays},
author = {Mathias Müller and Mandy Keck and Thomas Gründer and Natalie Hube and Rainer Groh},
url = {http://2017.xcoax.org/pdf/xcoax2017-Muller.pdf},
year  = {2017},
date = {2017-07-05},
booktitle = {Proceedings xCoAx 2017},
pages = {10},
publisher = {5th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X},
address = {Lisbon, Portugal},
abstract = {In this paper, we present an interaction and visualization concept for elastic displays. The interaction concept was inspired by the search process of a rummage table to explore a large set of product data. The basic approach uses a similarity-based search pattern – based on a small set of items, the user refines the search result by examining similar items and exchanging them with items from the current result. A physically-based approach is used to interact with the data by deforming the surface of the elastic display. The presented visualization concept uses glyphs to directly compare items at a glance. Zoomable UI techniques controlled by the deformation of the elastic surface allow to display different levels of detail for each item.},
keywords = {Glyphs, Interface Design},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {conference}
}