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Sun Labs Technical Report TR-2008-176
Radial Scrolling Revisited
by Antero Taivalsaari
June 3, 2008 - About ten years ago, the author of this paper first proposed
a user interface concept in which the display is scrolled
radially rather than horizontally or vertically. A central
goal of the radially scrolling user interface concept was
to allow screen space to be utilized more efficiently
especially in mobile devices with limited displays.
Back then, the author wrote a Personal Information
Manager (PIM) application for the Palm pocket
organizer device to demonstrate the concept. That
application was not particularly powerful, given
that the Palm pocket organizer had serious memory
and processing power limitations. As computing
devices have become dramatically more powerful
since then, this is a good time to revisit some
of the earlier ideas. In this paper we summarize
our experiences in porting the radial scrolling
algorithm onto the Sun(TM) Labs Lively Kernel – a
flexible web programming environment written
entirely in the JavaScript(TM) language.
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