Scented Widgets: Improving Navigation Cues with Embedded Visualizations
Willett, W.
Heer, J.
Agrawala, M.
Univ. of California, Berkeley;
This paper appears in: Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on
Publication Date: Nov.-Dec. 2007
Volume: 13,
Issue: 6
On page(s): 1129-1136
Location: Research Triangle Park, NC, USA,
ISSN: 1077-2626
INSPEC Accession Number: 9698373
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70589
Current Version Published: 2007-11-05
Abstract
This paper presents scented widgets, graphical user interface controls enhanced with embedded visualizations that facilitate navigation in information spaces. We describe design guidelines for adding visual cues to common user interface widgets such as radio buttons, sliders, and combo boxes and contribute a general software framework for applying scented widgets within applications with minimal modifications to existing source code. We provide a number of example applications and describe a controlled experiment which finds that users exploring unfamiliar data make up to twice as many unique discoveries using widgets imbued with social navigation data. However, these differences equalize as familiarity with the data increases.
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