Zomit: A Zoomable User Interface

Eric Lecolinet, Stuart Pook - GET/ENST Paris

Semantic Zooming and Control Menus

Zomit is a generic package for developing zoomable user interfaces (ZUIs) that can aid in navigating large information spaces.

Zomit includes new navigation (focus+context) aids and a new interaction model based on Control Menus. A control menu is a new type of popup menu that is visually similar to a Pie Menu and makes it possible to select and control an operation in a single gesture.

Zomit has a client/server architecture and the client was written in Java so that it can be used over the Internet as a Java applet.

On-line Demo >>> A Zomit interface to a virtual library

Slides, Papers and Videos

Videos

• Virtual library: semantic zooming - control menu - context layer - full video (in French)
• Infobiogen's HuGeMap database: novice mode - expert mode - full video

• Zoomable interfaces: The Zomit toolkit. IFIP Working Group 2.7/13.4 Meeting, Paris, Oct.31-Nov.2, 2002.
• Control Menus: Execution and Control in a Single Interactor (with 2 videos) CHI 2000
• Zoomable and 3D Representations for Digital Libraries IHM-HCI 2001

• S. Pook, E. Lecolinet, G. Vaysseix, E. Barillot, Control Menus: Execution and Control in a Single Interactor. ACM CHI, pp. 263-264. The Hague, The Netherlands. ACM Press, April 2000.
• S. Pook, E. Lecolinet, G. Vaysseix, E. Barillot, Context and interaction in zoomable user interfaces. ACM AVI, pp. 227-231 & 317, Palermo, Italy, May 2000. ACM Press.
• E. Lecolinet, S. Pook, Interfaces zoomables et Control menus : Techniques focus+contexte pour la navigation interactive dans les bases de donnees, Revue les Cahiers du numerique, Vol.3, pp. 191-210. Hermes, Paris, Dec. 2002.
• More references

More info

• on the Zomit project (may be partially obsolete)
• and on other projects