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Devamardeep Hayatpur

@devamarh.bsky.social

PhD candidate at UCSD, working on cognitive-friendly programming tools & notations (hayatpur.dev)

Devamardeep Hayatpur @devamarh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Oo those are great questions! my main reference point for semantic zooming is Cockburn's survey: faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~stasko/7450... and §7.2 collects a few high-level studies which might have partial answers your Qs (but it's definitely an understudied interaction pattern!)

A table of evaluations for semantic zooming. There are three columns: Author & Year, interaction techniques (Overview + Detail, Zoom, Focus + Context), and a description of the evaluation.

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Devamardeep Hayatpur @devamarh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The original figure (from Curry's Programming by Abstract Demonstration). It has a bunch of figures that show steps over time and are pretty inscrutable on their own.

A figure from a paper. It has four rows, each row shows an operation on a "stack" data structure. Each operation is shown as a sequence of stop-motion screenshots.

A series of steps showing an interface which computes something. I don't quite understand it yet.

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Devamardeep Hayatpur @devamarh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Animated a figure from an old programming-by-demonstration paper :)

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Devamardeep Hayatpur @devamarh.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

A lil' fractal that looks like stained glass :)

$A picture of a fractal that looks like stained glass in the shape of five curved claws coming out of the center. The bottom right states the set of equations for the fractal: x = x - floor(t * f(x, y)) y = t * g(x, y) x = x - t * f(x, y) f(x, y) = y + 0.1 * sin(x) g(x, y) = x - 0.1 * cos(y) t = 0.64$ Same as previous image, except this time the claws are connected. The equation states: t = 0.79

Same as previous image, except this time the claws are connected. The equation states: t = 0.79

Eight colorful tendrils emanating from the center. The equation states: t = 0.392

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