Content-aware Scrolling

Scrolling is used to navigate large information spaces on small screens, but is often too restrictive or cumbersome to use for particular types of content, such as multi-page, multi-column documents. To address this problem, we introduce content-aware scrolling (CAS), an approach that
takes into account various characteristics of document content to determine scrolling direction, speed, and zoom. We also present the CAS widget, which supports scrolling through a content-aware path using traditional scrolling methods, demonstrating the advantages of making a traditional technique content-aware. (Authors: Edward Ishak, Steven Feiner, Columbia University. Please visit http://www.edwardishak.com for more information.)

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• Scrolling
• interaction
• navigation
• path
• traversal
• content-aware

[Maexxus]

This is a very clever idea, I hope we can see this kind of feature on mainstream operating systems in the future.

[MirekMateju]

I am confused. You are paid by Microsoft and working on Macs? Which operating system will take advantage of your work?