User Interface Research Group - Masatomo Kobayashi - MoreWheel

MoreWheel

What is this study about?

We propose a navigation technique for browsing large documents that adjusts the scrolling speed depending on the position of the mouse cursor. The scrolling speed is not scaled when using the mouse wheel at the center of the window, while it becomes n times faster/slower than normal when the cursor is positioned at an edge of the window, respectively. Users can first scroll to an approximate position by moving the mouse to the right and rotating the mouse wheel, and then fine-tune the position by using the mouse wheel at the left of the window.

We also introduce a technique for dragging objects across overlapping windows. By rotating the mouse wheel backward/forward while dragging an object, users can temporarily hide/restore a window that obscures the target window. Any hidden windows are pushed onto an internal stack. This technique focuses only on object-dragging tasks; therefore any windows in the stack are restored when the user drops the object onto the target window.

Materials

• Video

Download: MoreWheel for Windows

• MoreWheel ver.0.14 for Windows 2000/XP (English; 65KB)
• MoreWheel ver.0.14 for Windows 2000/XP (Japanese; 65KB)

1. Modify the scrolling speed based on the position of the mouse cursor;
2. Change the foreground window with the mouse wheel during drag-and-drop operations;
3. Maximize a window or make it topmost by rotating the mouse wheel on the title bar;
4. Rearrange windows by rotating the mouse wheel on the taskbar;
5. Scroll inactive windows as well as the active window; and so on.

Publications

1. Kobayashi, M. and Igarashi, T. MoreWheel: Multimode Scroll-Wheeling Depending on the Cursor Location, In Adjunct Proceedings of UIST 2006, Montreux, Switzerland, October 2006, pp.57-58.
2. 小林正朋、五十嵐健夫「活用：マウスホイール」インタラクション2005論文集、東京、2005年3月、pp.175-176。