Paper Info
Title
Breaking the Copy/Paste Cycle: The Stretchable Selection Tool
Abstract
Copy and paste, or cut and paste, using a clipboard or paste buffer has long been the principle facility provided to users for transferring data between and within GUI applications. We argue that this mechanism can be clumsy in circumstances where several pieces of information must be moved systematically - for example, extracting a predetermined set of data fields from a piece of unstructured text. In dealing with the plethora of potentially useful, but not appropriately structured, information on the World Wide Web, interfaces which facilitate manual information gathering are of considerable importance. We present an alternative, more natural, user interface facility to make the task less onerous, and to provide improved visual feedback during the operation. We call our facility the "Stretchable Selection Tool", a semi-transparent overlay augmenting the mouse pointer to automate paste operations and provide information to prompt the user. We describe a prototype implementation that functions in a collaborative software environment, allowing users to cooperate on multiple copy/paste operations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1109/AUIC.2000.822057
Canberra, ACT
Keywords
Field
DocType
paste operation,paste cycle,multiple copy,gui application,principle facility,stretchable selection,manual information gathering,paste buffer,user interface facility,world wide web,data field,data mining,graphical user interfaces,collaborative,feedback,user interfaces,data transfer,data fields,computer science,application software,natural user interface,groupware,web pages
Web page,Computer science,Collaborative software,Software prototyping,Clipboard,Human–computer interaction,Graphical user interface,Application software,User interface,Natural user interface
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-0515-5
4
0.76
References 
Authors
2
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mark D. Apperley111519.19
Dale Fletcher2172.90
William J. Rogers383.40