Zoomable Graphical Sketchpad
Interactive user interfaces, multiscale interfaces, zoomable interfaces, authoring, information navigation, hypertext, information visualization, information physics, user interface management system (UIMS).
We describe Pad++, a zoomable graphical sketchpad that we are exploring as an alternative to traditional window and icon-based interfaces. We discuss the motivation for Pad++, describe the implementation, and present prototype applications. In addition, we introduce an informational physics strategy for interface design and briefly contrast it with current design strategies. We envision a rich world of dynamic persistent informational entities that operate according to multiple physics specifically designed to provide cognitively facile access and serve as the basis for design of new computationally-based work materials.
Copyright Computer Science Department, The University of New Mexico