In general this is the publication you should cite if you would like to make reference to Piccolo or Jazz.  It is our most recent paper.  And, it represents the culmination of what we have learned through the evolution of our various toolkits.

Previous Publications

2003

Automatic Thumbnail Cropping and its Effectiveness Bongwon Suh, Haibin Ling, Benjamin B. Bederson, David W. Jacobs (April 2003) HCIL-2003-13, CS-TR-4469, UMIACS-TR-2003-39

Toolkit Design for Interactive Structured Graphics Bederson, B. B., Grosjean, J., and Meyer, J. (January 2003) HCIL-2003-01, CS-TR-4432, UMIACS-TR-2003-03

2002

SpaceTree: Supporting Exploration in Large Node Link Tree, Design Evolution and Empirical Evaluation Plaisant, C., Grosjean, J., and Bederson, B.B. (April 2002) INFOVIS 2002. IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, 2002 Page(s): 57 -64, Boston, October 2002 HCIL-2002-05, CS-TR-4360, UMIACS-TR-2002-40

2001

Navigation Patterns and Usability of Overview+Detail and Zoomable User Interfaces for Maps Hornbæk, K., Bederson, B.B., and Plaisant, C. (May 2001) Revised version with new title, "Navigation Patterns and Usability of Zoomable User Interfaces with and without an Overview", ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 362-389, December 2002. HCIL-2001-11, CS-TR-4267, UMIACS-TR-2001-48

Quantum Treemaps and Bubblemaps for a Zoomable Image Browser Bederson, B.B. (May 2001) ACM Conference on User Interface and Software Technology (UIST 2001) as PhotoMesa: A Zoomable Image Browser using Quantum Treemaps and Bubblemaps, pp. 71-80. HCIL-2001-10, CS-TR-4256, UMIACS-TR-2001-39

OZONE: A Zoomable Interface for Navigating Ontology Suh, B. and Bederson, B. B. (March 2001) Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2002), ACM, Trento, Italy, 139-143, ACM Press. HCIL-2001-04, CS-TR-4227, UMIACS-TR-2001-16

CounterPoint: Creating Jazzy Interactive Presentations Good, L., Bederson, B.B. HCIL-2001-3, CS-TR-4225, UMIACS-TR-2001-14, March 2001. Published with a new name as "Zoomable User Interfaces as a Medium for Slide Show Presentations", (2002) Information Visualization, 1 (1), Palgrave Macmillan, 35-49.

2000

Jazz: An Extensible Zoomable User Interface Graphics Toolkit in Java Bederson, B.B., Meyer, J., Good, L. HCIL-2000-13, CS-TR-4137, UMIACS-TR-2000-30, May 2000. In ACM UIST 2000, pp. 171-180

1999

Jazz: An Extensible 2D+ Zooming Graphics Toolkit in Java (Replaced by the 2000 publication.) Bederson, B.B., McAlister, B. HCIL-99-07, CS-TR-4015, UMIACS-TR-99-24, May 1999.

Does Zooming Improve Image Browsing? Combs, T., T.A., and Bederson, B.B. HCIL-99-05, CS-TR-3995, UMIACS-TR-99-14, February 1999. In ACM Digital Library Conference, pp. 130-137.

1998

Graphical Multiscale Web Histories: A Study of PadPrints Hightower, R.R., Ring, L.T., Helfman, J.I., Bederson, B.B., and Hollan, J.D. ACM Conference on Hypertext 1998

Does Animation Help Users Build Mental Maps of Spatial Information Bederson, B.B. and Boltman, A., CS-TR-3964, UMIACS-TR-98-73, September 1998. In IEEE Info Vis 99, pp. 28 - 35.

A Zooming Web Browser (This one describes the Pad++ Web browser with a user study comparing it to Netscape) Bederson, B.B., Hollan, J.D., Stewart, J., Rogers, D., Vick, D., Ring, L.T., Grose, E., Forsythe, C. Human Factors in Web Development, Eds. Ratner, Grose, and Forsythe, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc., pp 255-266, 1998.

Implementing a Zooming User Interface: Experience Building Pad++ Bederson, B.B., Meyer, J. Software: Practice and Experience, 28 (10), pp. 1101-1135, August 1998.

When Two Hands Are Better Than One: Enhancing Collaboration Using Single Display Groupware Stewart, J., Raybourn, E.M., Bederson, B.B., Druin, A. ACM CHI 98 Summary, 1998.

1997

KidPad: A Design Collaboration Between Children, Technologists, and Educators Druin, A., Stewart, J., Proft, D., Bederson, B.B., Hollan, J.D. ACM CHI 97, pp 463-470, 1997.

A Multiscale Narrative: Gray Matters Wardrip-Fruin, N., Meyer, J., Perlin, J., Bederson, B.B., Hollan, J.D. ACM SIGGRAPH 97 Visual Proceedings, p 141, 1997.

1996

A Zooming Web Browser (This one desribes the Pad++ Web browser along with several extensions we made to HTML to allow zooming within the document.) Bederson, B.B., Hollan, J.D., Stewart, J., Rogers, D., Druin, A., and Vick, D. SPIE Multimedia Computing and Networking, Volume 2667, pp 260-271, 1996.

An Agnostic Approach to Scripting Languages Bederson, B.B., Hollan, J.D., Stewart, J. Unpublished, 1996

Local Tools: An Alternative to Tool Palettes Bederson, B.B., Hollan, J.D., Druin, A., Stewart, J., Rogers, D., Proft, D. ACM UIST '96, pp 169-170, 1996.

Pad++: A Zoomable Graphical Sketchpad for Exploring Alternate Interface Physics Bederson, B.B., Hollan, J., Perlin, K., Meyer, J., Bacon, D., and Furnas, G. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 7, 3-31, 1996.

1995

Two Document Visualization Techniques for Zoomable Interfaces Meyer, J., Perlin, K., Bederson, B.B., Hollan, J., Unpublished, 1995

Space-Scale Diagrams: Understanding Multiscale Interfaces Furnas, G., Bederson, B.B., ACM SIGCHI '95.

Advances in the Pad++ Zoomable Graphics Widget Bederson, B.B., Hollan, J. USENIX Tcl/Tk'95 Workshop.

1994

Pad++: Advances in Multiscale Interfaces Bederson, B.B., Stead, L., Hollan, J.D. ACM SIGCHI '94 (short paper), 1994

Pad++: A Zooming Graphical Interface for Exploring Alternate Interface Physics Bederson, B.B., Hollan, J.D., ACM UIST '94, 1994

1993

Pad - An Alternative Approach to the Computer Interface Perlin, K., Fox, D. ACM SIGGRAPH '93.

1991

A Multiscale Approach to Interactive Display Organization Perlin, K. Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology Workshop, National Science Foundation, June 1991.