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From: | Heikki Salo |
Subject: | [Fenfire-dev] Re: [vos-d] a 3D interface vision |
Date: | Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:34:27 +0300 |
2. Sense of space and direction (related to orientation) has been discussed when making views to information structures.the straightforward way of navigating in an 'infite' virtual space is to simply be able to recenter the display and zoom in/out. then you can simply furnish the user with a magic wand that he/she can jump out of a place and into an other. this is easy enough for mr and mrs everybody to get into. the goal in designing ui should be 'no need for instructions - least amount of background knowledge required' .
The latter is partly related to how ZigZag is locally euclidian and perhaps hence creates such sense of space, but RDF (which Fenfire uses) is different. this elaborated a bit later here.
(what else?-)
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