A Zooming Web Browser

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In the sections that follow, we describe our zooming web browser and the attempt to use animation and multiscale representation …

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A Zooming Web Browser
Benjamin B. Bederson, James D. Hollan,
Jason Stewart, David Rogers, Allison Druin, David Vick
Computer Science Department
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
{bederson, hollan, jasons, drogers, allisond, dvick}@cs.unm.edu
http://www.cs.unm.edu/pad++
ABSTRACT
The World Wide Web (WWW) is becoming increasingly important for business, education, and entertainment. Popular web
browsers make access to Internet information resources relatively easy for novice users. Simply by clicking on a link, a new
page of information replaces the current one on the screen. Unfortunately however, after following a number of links, people
can have difficulty remembering where they’ve been and navigating links they have followed. As one’s collection of web pages
grows and as more information of interest populates the web, effective navigation becomes an issue of fundamental importance.
We are developing a prototype zooming browser to explore alternative mechanisms for navigating the WWW. 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….