Abstract: When an information space is larger than the display, it is typical for interfaces to only support interacting with content that is rendered within its viewport. Various embodiments are described herein for several spatial off-screen exploration techniques that make use of the interaction space around the physical display to support interacting with off-screen content. These techniques include one or more of Paper Distortion, Dynamic Distortion, Content-Aware Dynamic Peephole Inset, Spatial Panning, and Point2Pan. To enable a detailed analysis of spatial interaction systems, a web-based visualization system was developed called SpatialVis, which visualizes logged data of a video screen capture of the associated user interface for various spatial interactions by the user.