Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Patrick Baudisch Interview (12 Feb 2006) Currently I am focusing on visualization techniques that help users view large documents, such as maps or web pages on the small screens. A recent project is "summary thumbnails". We display web pages as miniature versions that are just wide enough to fit the width of the screen. Unlike techniques proposed by other researchers, our thumbnails are readable because we delete text fragments instead of shrinking fonts into unreadability. What makes me passionate about phones is the huge yet still growing impact they have on people worldwide. We start seeing more and more tasks that we used to perform on PCs now covered by phones, things like checking email, driving directions, or shopping. I believe that this trend will continue and I am wondering how far it will go. In the not so distant future, we will look back and we will find it surprising that we used to log into a PC to do this. New visualization and interaction techniques will make a tremendous contribution here. Add this article to Del.icio.us Article URL: http://ambidextrousmag.org/preview/issue2/baudisch.html Read 9 more articles from Ambidextrous Magazine sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: PicoPad          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy

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