Patent ID: 7542845

Claim:
A method in a computing device for interactions between the computing device and a human user, the method comprising: displaying a first area of information associated with a navigable collection of information, wherein the navigable collection of information is navigable using both scrolling and expansion/contraction, wherein the scrolling includes sliding a horizontal or vertical presentation of content across a screen or display window associated with the computing device, and wherein the expansion/contraction facilitates moving from a summarized view of information in the collection to a more detailed view of information in the collection and/or moving from the more detailed view of information in the collection to the summarized view of information in the collection; receiving an instruction to display a second area of information associated with the navigable collection of information, wherein the instruction is based on processing of a user-initiated physical contact event with at least one external portion of the computing device, the processing including: assigning a vector value to the user-initiated physical contact event, the vector value having both a length and a direction related to a length and direction of the user-initiated physical contact event; and correlating the vector value to both a scrolling action and an expansion/contraction action; and based on the received instruction, displaying the second area of information associated with the navigable collection of information, wherein the displaying includes navigating from the first area of information to the second area of information by applying both the scrolling action and the expansion/contraction action substantially simultaneously.