Paper Info
Title
An application-independent system for visualizing user operation history
Abstract
A history-of-user-operations function helps make applications easier to use. For example, users may have access to an operation history list in an application to undo or redo a past operation. To provide an overview of a long operation history and help users find target interactions or application states quickly, visual representations of operation history have been proposed. However, most previous systems are tightly integrated with target applications and difficult to apply to new applications. We propose an application-independent method that can visualize the operation history of arbitrary GUI applications by monitoring the input and output GUI events from outside of the target application. We implemented a prototype system that visualizes operation sequences of generic Java Awt/Swing applications using an annotated comic strip metaphor. We tested the system with various applications and present results from a user study.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1145/1449715.1449721
UIST
Keywords
Field
DocType
application-independent system,new application,past operation,swing application,application state,long operation history,operation history,operation history list,arbitrary gui application,visualizes operation sequence,target application,visualizing user operation history,summarization,diagrams
Automatic summarization,Undo,Computer science,Input/output,Human–computer interaction,Java
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
29
1.26
29
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Toshio Nakamura1291.26
Takeo Igarashi219315.18