Pad++: Zooming User Interfaces (ZUIs) A zooming sketchpad, a multiscale narrative: Pad++, PadDraw, Gray Matters | Games and Playable Media @ UCSC. Media Research Lab. For the last decade the MRL has lead research efforts in Zooming User Interfaces (ZUIs). These interfaces create an intuitive information landscape - the user moves "further away" to get an overview, or "closer" for more detail, while keeping a sense of orientation and structure that traditional "pop-up" windows and dialogues can't match. Following Ken Perlin's initial "Pad" project (and patent with Prof. Jack Schwartz), a number of systems have been developed. "Pad++" was developed in collaboration with Prof. Ben Bederson and Prof. James Hollan at the University of New Mexico, and resulted in a non-exclusive license to the Sony corporation. "Tabula Rasa" was developed by Prof. Ongoing MRL work in this area includes ZUIs for the web and handheld devices, with uses ranging from complex software controls to authoring and reading structured documents.
Zooming Pad Demo Pad Web Navigation Demo Patents PAD patent. Zooming user interface. Example of a ZUI When the level of detail present in the resized object is changed to fit the relevant information into the current size, instead of being a proportional view of the whole object, it's called semantic zooming.[1] Some experts consider the ZUI paradigm as a flexible and realistic successor to the traditional windowing GUI, being a Post-WIMP interface. But little effort is currently spent developing ZUIs, while there are ongoing efforts for developing other types of GUIs. History[edit] GeoPhoenix, a Cambridge, MA, startup associated with the MIT Media Lab, founded by Julian Orbanes, Adriana Guzman, Max Riesenhuber, released the first mass-marketed commercial Zoomspace in 2002-3 on the Sony CLIÉ PDA handheld, with Ken Miura of Sony In 2006, Hillcrest Labs introduced the HoME television navigation system, the first graphical, zooming interface for television.[5] ZUI projects[edit] Eagle Mode’s file manager displaying plain text source code directories See also[edit] References[edit]
Readings in information visualization: using vision to think - Stuart K. Card, Jock D. Mackinlay, Ben Shneiderman.