ZUIST is an application based on ZVTM that lets you navigate in 20 years of papers published at the ACM UIST conference. It was one of the 20th Anniversary Interactive Visualization tools demonstrated during the conference.
ZUIST is a zoomable user interface that lets you navigate in 578 research papers, typically 4 to 10 page long. Papers can be browsed by year, by author, by keyword. Overall, the multi-scale scene is composed of more than 80,000 graphical objects (about 2GB of data), most of them being 1224x1584 pixels bitmap images, loaded dynamically.
Eventually, ZUIST will become a generic multi-scale scene engine/API for ZVTM which will make it easier for developers to develop multi-scale interfaces à la Google Earth (though in 2.5D) in which objects representing a scene at varying levels of detail are load/unloaded dynamically to/from memory depending on the region of the virtual space scene through the camera. The API's javadoc is available.
Screenshots
Navigating in the 578 research papers published at ACM UIST from 1988 to 2007
Navigating in a multi-scale version of NASA's Blue Marble Next Generation world map (86400x43200 pixels) enriched with geographical data taken from the Geonames database.
Videos
- Teaser for the ACM UIST conference 20th anniversary. (Quicktime H.264)
- Video of a UIST attendent interacting with ZUIST on a SmartBoard 3000i (YouTube)
- Companion video associated with a paper published at ACM CHI'07 about multi-scale searching. The video's last 40 seconds show the Blue Marble world map. (Quicktime H.264)
