 | Scalable Fabric Paper |
Scalable Fabric couples window management with a flexible visual representation to provide a focus-plus-context solution to desktop complexity. Users interact with windows in a central focus region of the display in a normal manner, but when a user moves a window into the periphery, it shrinks in size, getting smaller as it nears the edge of the display.
| 5/1/2004 | PDF |  | Groupbar Paper |
GroupBar, a task management system for dealing with the profusion of windows on the PC desktop. Designed to offer the same basic form and function as the existing Microsoft Windows™ TaskBar, GroupBar additionally allows users to group windows into higher-level tasks and enables task switching with a single mouse click
| 11/26/2003 | PDF |  | Drag-and-Pop Demo |
Interaction technique designed to accelerate drag-and-drop on large screens. By animating potential targets and bringing them to the dragged object, drag_and_pop reduces the user effort required for dragging an object across the screen to a desired target. To preserve users’ spatial memory, targets are not moved away from their original location, but are instead stretched using a rubber band-like visualization.
Grab the icon surrounded by outward facing arrows and start dragging it toward the other highlighted icon. To show the highlights again, press the"space bar." To try different conditions, click on the "Start" button.
| 12/9/2002 | Flash Mockup |  | High-Density Cursor Demo |
Various cues to help a user find a moving cursor on a large display. Try different combinations of the techniques to see which is right for you. Some work while the mouse is moving, some work once you have stopped moving the mouse.
| 10/25/2002 | Flash Mockup |
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