Interface elements for directed display of content data items

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• causing a first subset of content elements of a set of content elements to be displayed in a display view of a graphical user interface, wherein the content elements in the set of content elements are in a sequence;
• detecting first user input, wherein the first user input includes one or more commands to cause scrolling or page flipping of a plurality of content elements in the display view, wherein the first user input instructs display of at least one content element next or previous in the sequence of the set of content elements;
• in response to the first user input:
• causing a change of the display view based on the first user input, wherein causing the change of the display view includes the scrolling or the page flipping of the plurality of content elements in the display view, wherein the change of the display view includes a second subset of content elements of the set of content elements being displayed in the display view;
• determining one or more acceleration topics that are associated with one or more sections of content elements in the set of content elements, wherein the one or more acceleration topics are based on one or more characteristics of one or more content elements in the one or more sections of content elements, and wherein the one or more sections of content elements are in a third subset of the set of content elements, the third subset being smaller than the set of content elements;
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• causing one or more topic elements to be displayed in the graphical user interface, wherein each topic element corresponds to a respective acceleration topic of the one or more acceleration topics;
• receiving second user input indicative of a selection of a particular topic element of the one or more topic elements;
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• in response to the second user input, causing the display view to be updated to include at least a portion of a section of content elements that corresponds to the particular topic element.

A system comprising:

• a memory with instructions stored thereon;
• and
• at least one processor in communication with the memory and configured to execute the instructions, the instructions causing the processor to perform operations comprising:
• causing a first subset of content elements of a set of content elements to be presented in a display view of a graphical user interface, wherein content elements in the set of content elements are in a sequence, and wherein the set of content elements corresponds to a collection of content data items;
• detecting first user input, wherein the first user input includes one or more commands to cause scrolling or page flipping of a plurality of content elements in the display view, wherein the first user input instructs display of at least one content element next or previous in the sequence of the set of content elements;
• in response to the first user input,
• causing a change of the display view based on the first user input, wherein causing the change of the display view includes the scrolling or the page flipping of the plurality of content elements in the display view, wherein the change of the display view includes a second subset of the set of content elements being presented in the display view;
• identifying one or more search topics based on one or more content characteristics associated with one or more content elements that are in a third subset of the set of content elements, wherein the third subset is smaller than the set of content elements;
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• causing one or more topic elements to be displayed in the graphical user interface, wherein each topic element corresponds to a respective search topic of the one or more search topics;
• receiving second user input indicative of selection of a particular topic element of the one or more topic elements;
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• in response to the second user input,
• searching the collection of content data items to identify one or more resulting content data items that have at least one content characteristic corresponding to a search topic that corresponds to the particular topic element;
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• updating the display view to present at least one resulting content element that corresponds to at least one resulting content data item of the one or more resulting content data items.