RangeSlider

Updated: January 15, 2004; G. Waloszek

Purpose

Range Slider is a slider with two drag boxes for specifying a range that s not bound to a slider endpoint. Typically two separate sliders have been used for this capability, giving rise to unnatural interaction and more error conditions. A range slider uses less space, provides more natural and clear interaction, and eliminates error conditions.

Applications

Selection of items that are characterized by their values within a range of values. A typical application is the selection of houses in HomeFinder by their distance from the work place.

Authors

Ben Shneiderman, a.o. (HCIL, University of Maryland)

Links

• www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hcil/Research/UMDWLib.html (no longer available)
• HCIL (University of Maryland): www.cs.umd.edu/projects/hcil/