Paper Info
Title
Elastic windows: design, implementation, and evaluation of multi-window operations
Abstract
ABSTRACT Most windowing systems follow the independent overlap - ping windows approach, which emerged as an answer to the needs of the 1980s" technology Due to advances in computers and display technology, and increased informa - tion needs, modern users demand more functionality from window management systems We proposed Elastic Win - dows with improved spatial layout and rapid multi - window operations as an alternative to current window management strategies for efficient personal role management [12] In this approach, multi - window operations are achieved by issuing operations on window groups hierarchically organized in a space - filling tiled layout This paper describes the Elastic Windows interface briefly and then presents a study compar - ing user performance with Elastic Windows and traditional window management techniques for 2, 6, and 12 window situations Elastic Windows users had statistically signifi - cantly faster performance for all 6 and 12 window situations, for task environment setup, task environment switching, and task execution For some tasks there was a ten - fold speed - up in performance These results suggest promising possibili - ties for multiple window operations and hierarchical nesting, which can be applied to the next generation of tiled as well as overlapped window managers
Year
DOI
Venue
1998
3.3.CO;2-4" target="_self" class="small-link-text"10.1002/(SICI)1097-024X(199803)28:33.3.CO;2-4
Software—Practice & Experience
Keywords
DocType
Volume
elastic windows,multi-window operation
Journal
28
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0038-0644
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.56
6
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eser Kandogan169864.49
Ben Shneiderman2127723081.95