Visual guides for comprehending digital ink in distortion lenses

Paul Schmieder; Andrew Luxton-Reilly; Beryl Plimmer; John Hosking

Visual guides for comprehending digital ink in distortion lenses

Paul Schmieder, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Beryl Plimmer, John Hosking

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

Abstract

We devised and tested two new visual guides to help users comprehend distorted sketched information in magnification lenses. Distortion techniques, such as fisheye lenses, have the advantage of magnifying information without occluding the surrounding content. However distorted information in the transition region requires extra mental workload to understand: this can lead to frustration and rejection of magnification lenses. Our evaluation shows any visual guide is better than none and identifies strengths and weaknesses of the new guides. We tested for the four visual properties important for understanding distorted information: scale, alignment, distance and direction. Surprisingly grids are not as effective in many contexts as our new lenses.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HCI 2013 - 27th International British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Conference: The Internet of Things
Editors	Steve Love, Kate Hone, Tom McEwan
Place of Publication	TBC
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	-
Edition	Peer Reviewed
ISBN (Print)	9780000000002
Publication status	Published - 2013
Event	27th International British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Conference: The Internet of Things, HCI 2013 - Brunel University Duration: 1 Jan 2013 → … http://hci2013.bcs.org/submissions.html

Conference

Conference	27th International British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Conference: The Internet of Things, HCI 2013
Period	1/01/13 → …
Other	September 9-13 2013
Internet address	http://hci2013.bcs.org/submissions.html

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Schmieder, Paul ; Luxton-Reilly, Andrew ; Plimmer, Beryl et al. / Visual guides for comprehending digital ink in distortion lenses. HCI 2013 - 27th International British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Conference: The Internet of Things. editor / Steve Love, Kate Hone, Tom McEwan. Peer Reviewed. ed. TBC : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2013. pp. -

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Visual guides for comprehending digital ink in distortion lenses. / Schmieder, Paul; Luxton-Reilly, Andrew; Plimmer, Beryl et al.
HCI 2013 - 27th International British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Conference: The Internet of Things. ed. / Steve Love, Kate Hone, Tom McEwan. Peer Reviewed. ed. TBC: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2013. p. -.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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