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FacetZoom: a continuous multi-scale widget for navigating hierarchical metadata

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Faceted browsing is a promising way to incrementally refine data sets. Current approaches do not scale well in terms of screen size and have shortcomings in interacting with hierarchical facets. This paper introduces FacetZoom, a novel multi-scale widget combining facet browsing with zoomable user interfaces. Hierarchical facets are displayed as space-filling widgets which allow a fast traversal across all levels while simultaneously maintaining context. We contribute both a seamless continuous navigation and a quick tap-and-center interaction. Two prototypes are described which successfully apply the space-structuring widget to continuous, sampled data and an information collection. A formative user study of the latter indicates that the interface scales well to small screens. FacetZoom is versatile and offers consistent searching and browsing behaviors in a multitude of applications and device settings.

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    CHI '08: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    April 2008
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    1. facet browsing
    2. faceted metadata
    3. interaction technique
    4. media management
    5. time navigation
    6. zoomable user interface

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