Paper Info
Title
Importance-driven compositing window management
Abstract
In this paper we present importance-driven compositing window management, which considers windows not only as basic rectangular shapes but also integrates the importance of the windows' content using a bottom-up visual attention model. Based on this information, importance-driven compositing optimizes the spatial window layout for maximum visibility and interactivity of occluded content in combination with see-through windows. We employ this technique for emerging window manager functions to minimize information overlap caused by popping up windows or floating toolbars and to improve the access to occluded window content. An initial user study indicates that our technique provides a more effective and satisfactory access to occluded information than the well-adopted Alt+Tab window switching technique and see-through windows without optimized spatial layout.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/1978942.1979085
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
optimized spatial layout,window manager function,importance-driven compositing window management,see-through windows,occluded information,tab window,spatial window layout,occluded content,occluded window content,importance-driven compositing,bottom up,transparency
Title bar,Desktop Window Manager,Visibility,Computer graphics (images),Visualization,Computer science,Window manager,OpenGL,Z-order,Compositing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.46
26
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manuela Waldner113513.58
Markus Steinberger225827.37
Grasset, Raphael342931.38
Dieter Schmalstieg44169332.77