Skip to Main Content
 

Global Search Box

 
 
 
 

Files

File List


miami1313178580.pdf (4.75 MB)

ETD Abstract Container

Abstract Header

Rearticulating the Zoomable User Interface

Simoneaux, Brent A.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313178580

Abstract Details

2011, Master of Arts, Miami University, English.
To date, most research on the Zoomable User Interface (ZUI) has focused on the technical development of multiscale environments and ZUI applications. While this research is undeniably important, we would benefit from rearticulating the interface with a broader range of discourse. This thesis therefore examines the ZUI from a critical and rhetorical perspective. Chapter 1 defines the ZUI in technical and social terms. Chapter 2 traces the historical development of the ZUI with particular attention to its articulation with both windows-based applications and with a problematic rhetoric of “naturalness.” Chapter 3 explores how contemporary design practices can be informed by ancient and medieval mnemonic practices based on the arrangement of visual space. Finally, I reflect on my own experiences composing a multiscale zoomable text and offer recommendations for the development of ZUI text authoring applications that would better support the types of rhetorical practices that I advocate.
Jason Palmeri, PhD (Committee Chair)
James Porter, Phd (Committee Member)
Michele Simmons, Phd (Committee Member)
57 p.
Composition; Rhetoric
Zoomable User Interface; Zooming User Interface; ZUI; Human-Computer Interaction; HCI; Rhetoric; Memory; Rhetorical Memory

Recommended Citations

Citations

  • Simoneaux, B. A. (2011). Rearticulating the Zoomable User Interface [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313178580

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Simoneaux, Brent. Rearticulating the Zoomable User Interface. 2011. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313178580.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Simoneaux, Brent. "Rearticulating the Zoomable User Interface." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313178580

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

miami1313178580
488
© 2011, some rights reserved.Creative Commons License Rearticulating the Zoomable User Interface by Brent A. Simoneaux is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
This open access ETD is published by Miami University and OhioLINK.