You might find the following AVI 2006 paper relevant to your design thinking about the overview:
"Usability of Overview-Supported Zooming on Small Screens with Regard to Individual Differences" by Thorsten Búring, Jens Gerken and Harald Reiterer http://hci.uni-konstanz.de/~buering/pdfs/avi2006.pdf The paper is about a study of a small screen interface with and without an overview/mini-map display. Subjects in the study were measured for their spatial abilities then had to interact with the contents of the display. Some subjects had an overview while other didn't. The results seem to show there is a strong correlation between the use of the overview and a person's spatial abilities. If a person has a high spatial ability the overview had a negative effect, while it could aid a person with less spatial ability. This seems to be the case even though most of their subjects had above average spatial ability. Also (shameless plug - I did some work on hand held tools for wayfinding with different kinds of visual / haptic feedback and control) you can find some very relevant "spatial wayfinding in real and virtual spaces" papers listed in the references at end of: "Here Or There Is Where? Haptic Egocentric Interaction With Topographic Torch" http://www.stressbunny.com/mike/pubs/ 2006_CHI_TopographicTorch.pdf Especially checkout Hunt's review (good for 3D) and Levine's (very very very nice) spatial cognition experiments. - Mike > Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:20:51 -0800 > From: "Adrian Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Examples of Maps/Navigation for 3D interactive > experiences > > We're trying to create an immersive interactive experience by allowing > the user to explore different 3d environments to find content. I'm > trying to make accessing that content more direct if the user decides > they rather not explore. Just curious if anybody has some examples of > navigation/mini map married to a 3D interactive experience. > > Think of halo3.com/believe but with navigation allowing you to go all > the points of interest and maybe not so linear in terms of the explore > path. > > any replies are much appreciated! > > -- > Adrian Chong > www.adrianchong.com/blog -- Mike Bennett PhD Candidate Imaging, Visualisation and Graphics Lab Systems Research Group, University College Dublin, Ireland - email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - blog: http://www.user-designer.com - web: http://www.stressbunny.com/mike ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
