An Ecological Perspective of Visual Information Density in Interface Design
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Interface design often overlooks the problem of visual information density. This problem is concerned with how uniform a set of data is laid out on a display. It tries to avoid both clutter and sparsity of data as those two problems have a negative effect on the efficient use of display space. Since visual density is part of the perception process, it has to be dealt on this basis. This paper tries to lay down the concepts of ecological perception and relate them to the problem of visual information density. A new approach is inspired by this relation. This approach is based on depth layout which provides a more natural interface and introduces more affordances and flexibility than normal interfaces. Those new affordances and flexibility are the basis of maintaining uniform visual density.
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