GVU Technical Report Number:
GIT-GVU-97-19
Title:
Beyond the Scrollbar: An Evolution and Evaluation of Alternative List
Navigation Techniques
Authors:
D. Scott McCrickard
Richard Catrambone
Abstract:
List navigation devices such as scrollbars provide a simple
way to browse and find items in a list, but they typically do not
communicate information about individual list entries. This paper
presents two alternative devices, a mural bar and a pile bar, which
encode information about each entry into the trough of the bar. Results
from an experiment suggest that these new devices lead to improved user
performance on typical list-based tasks.
Keywords:
Scrollbar, information mural, pile metaphor, navigation bar, evaluation
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