OrthoZoom scroller
Published 22 April 2006Open access
Caroline Appert, Jean‐Daniel Fekete
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The OrthoZoom Scroller is introduced, a novel interaction technique that improves target acquisition in very large one-dimensional spaces and is about twice as fast as Speed Dependant Automatic Zooming to perform pointing tasks whose index of difficulty is in the 10-30 bits range.
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