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Radial Scrolling Revisited
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Author(s):
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Antero Taivalsaari
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Available Formats:
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TR-2008-176
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June 2008
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| Abstract |
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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 algorithm onto the Sun(TM) Labs Lively Kernel -- a flexible web programming
environment written entirely in the JavaScript(TM) language.
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