> For those who don't want to read, here is a link to the interactive
> prototype :)

> http://www.sba-safety.de/temp/interactive%20scrolling.html

> ===

> __Short Summary:__

> As the antithesis of the iPhone's "scrollbar", this concept enhances the
> traditional scrollbar with an abstraction of the scrollable content.

> __Description:__

> While the small screen of the iPhone forced the developers to come up
> with a "bare minimum" solution, that only displays the size/position
> relations between the viewport and the document. Even traditional
> scrollbars do not display any more information than that, they only
> thing that changes is the interaction with it.
> On a large screen we have enough space to do better than this.

> While viewing a document the user creates a map in his head to help him
> navigate, to reinforce this the scrollbar should contain a smaller
> version of the document. This preview shouldn't simply be a screenshot
> or thumbnail of the page, but an abstraction of it to highlight special
> markup such as links to create a more useful representation at the small
> size.

> Additionally scroll indicators (shadows in the direction of additional
> content) are used to show that the document is larger than the screen.

> The concept was created with multitouch input in mind but could be
> easily adapted to a mouse/keyboard setting.

> __About me:__
> My name is Valentin Laube and I'm a master student in Interaction Design
> at the Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal (FH) University of Applied Sciences
> in Germany, previously I studied Computational Visualistics.

> __References:__
> Software Visualization in the Large -
> http://www.cs.kent.edu/~jmaletic/softvis/papers/BallEick1996.pdf<http://www.cs.kent.edu/%7Ejmaletic/softvis/papers/BallEick1996.pdf>

> The Information Mural: A Technique for Displaying and Navigating Large
> Information Spaces -

> http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~mlanzenberger/teaching/ps/ws06/stuff/007...<http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/%7Emlanzenberger/teaching/ps/ws06/stuff/0...>

> __Mockups:__
> Video on YouTube – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akzT-N_qowI

> Sketch on Flickr –
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/pyr0_de/3316846263/sizes/l/

> __Prototypes:__
> Exploring Multitouch Gestures for Browser Interfaces -
> http://www.sba-safety.de/temp/gestures.html

> Interactive Scrolling Prototype -
> http://www.sba-safety.de/temp/interactive%20scrolling.html

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