Elastic Windows: Improved spatial layout and rapid multiple window operations
| dc.contributor.author | Kandogan, Eser | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Shneiderman, Ben | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2004-05-31T21:03:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2004-05-31T21:03:55Z | |
| dc.date.created | 1995-09 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 1998-10-15 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Most windowing systems follow the independent overlapping windows approach, which emerged as an answer to the needs of the 80s' applications and technology. Advances in computers, display technology, and the applications demand more functionality from window management systems. Based on these changes and the problems of current windowing approaches, we have updated the requirements for multi-window systems to guide new methods of window management. We propose elastic windows with improved spatial layout and rapid multi-window operations. Multi-window operations are achieved by issuing operations on a hierarchically organized group of windows in a space-filling tiled layout. Sophisticated multi-window operations like Hook, Pump, Minimize, Restore, Move and Relocate have been developed to handle fast task-switching and to structure the work environment of users to their rapidly changing needs. We claim that these multi-window operations and the tiled layout decrease the cognitive load on users. Users found our prototype system to be comprehensible and enjoyable as they playfully explored the way multiple windows are reshaped. (Also cross-referenced as CAR-TR-786, ISR-TR-95-89) | en_US |
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| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/439 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Tech Reports in Computer Science and Engineering | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Computer Science Department Technical Reports | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | UM Computer Science Department; CS-TR-3522 | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | CAR-TR-786 | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | ISR-TR-95-89 | en_US |
| dc.title | Elastic Windows: Improved spatial layout and rapid multiple window operations | en_US |
| dc.type | Technical Report | en_US |