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Fishnet, a fisheye web browser with search term popouts:
a comparative evaluation with overview and linear view
Patrick Baudisch
Microsoft Research
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052, USA
baudisch @ microsoft..com
Bongshin Lee
Human-Computer Interaction Lab
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
bongshin@cs.umd.edu
Libby Hanna
Hanna Research & Consulting
1402 26th Avenue East
Seattle, WA 98112
libbyh@earthlink.net
ABSTRACT
Fishnet is a web browser that always displays web pages in their
entirety, independent of their size. Fishnet accomplishes this by
using a fisheye view, i.e. by showing a focus region at readable
scale while spatially compressing page content above and below
that region. Fishnet offers search term highlighting, and assures
that those terms are readable by using “popouts”. This allows
users to visually scan search results within the entire page without
scrolling.
The scope of this paper is twofold. First, we present fishnet as a
novel way of viewing the results of highlighted search and we
discuss the design space. Second, we present a user study that
helps practitioners determine which visualization technique-
fisheye view, overview, or regular linear view-to pick for which
type of visual search scenario.
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