Content-aware layout

Ishak, Edward W.; Feiner, Steven

doi:10.1145/1240866.1241024

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“…One approach to address this is to let the user group windows by task [16,21]. Another approach is to analyze the user activities and assign windows to tasks automatically [5,13,18,21,23]. For example, WindowScape [21] creates a timeline of previous window configurations, and also allows users to assign windows to tasks manually.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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An Evaluation of Stacking and Tiling Features within the Traditional Desktop Metaphor

Zeidler

Lutteroth

Weber

2013

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013

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Abstract.Having many open windows on the desktop can lead to various usability problems. Window content may get occluded by other windows and working with multiple windows may get cumbersome. In this paper, we evaluate the idea to integrate stacking and tiling features into the traditional desktop metaphor. For this purpose we introduce the Stack & Tile window manager, which allows users to stack and tile arbitrary windows into groups that can be moved and resized similar to single windows. To evaluate if stacking and tiling can improve productivity, we conducted an experimental evaluation. We found that participants were able to perform various multi-window tasks and switch between tasks significantly faster using Stack & Tile. Furthermore, we found that the time to set up a Stack & Tile window group is reasonably low. Stack & Tile is open-source and has been used for over two years now. To evaluate its usefulness in practice, we conducted a web-based survey that reveals how people are actually using the new stacking and tiling features.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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An Evaluation of Stacking and Tiling Features within the Traditional Desktop Metaphor

Zeidler

Lutteroth

Weber

2013

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013

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“…For example, the transformation used by display bubbles [CG06] could be seen as a fisheye transformation that distorts the outer regions of the desktop to fit into a constrained space. Content aware layout [IF07] non-linearly distorts windows exceeding the display area along the x-axis to fit on the screen. However, both techniques distort windows without considering their content.…”

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Interactive Self‐Organizing Windows

Steinberger

Waldner

Schmalstieg

2012

Computer Graphics Forum

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In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a dynamic window management technique that changes the perception of windows as fixed-sized rectangles. The primary goal of self-organizing windows is to automatically display the most relevant information for a user's current activity, which removes the burden of organizing and arranging windows from the user. We analyze the image-based representation of each window and identify coherent pieces of information. The windows are then automatically moved, scaled and composed in a contentaware manner to fit the most relevant information into the limited area of the screen. During the design process, we consider findings from previous experiments and show how users can benefit from our system. We also describe how the immense processing power of current graphics processing units can be exploited to build an interactive system that finds an optimal solution within the complex design space of all possible window transformations in real time.

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“…In CAL [6], when a user selects a keyword in a text editor, and triggers the "content-aware layout," the system shows only windows containing the selected keyword. This can be regarded as another approach to the automatic window grouping, but it can define groups only by keywords.…”

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Liu

Tajima

2010

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

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Nowadays the Web and Web browsers have become the most important and universal platform for people to search, view, process, and exchange various kinds of information. Consequently, today's users usually open many Web pages simultaneously in order to perform multiple tasks in parallel, which makes Web browsers crucial in our daily task management. However, no existing Web browser provides users with sufficient support for the management of many tabs or windows of opened pages. On the other hand, wide displays have become more affordable and prevalent, while extra space on those displays is not utilized effectively in Web browsing. In this paper, we propose a new Web browser interface aiming to support efficient task management in Web browsing on wide displays. In order to help users switch between opened Web pages, we show thumbnails of the pages in the extra space around the currently focused page. In the page thumbnails, we emphasize distinctive elements in each page in order to make the selection of the thumbnails easier. In addition, we calculate the relevance between pages based on users' switching history, and emphasize pages relevant to the current page by adjusting the size or opacity of the thumbnails. This further helps users find the thumbnails of needed pages, and also helps users get the overview of the page set related to the current task.

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Content-aware layout

Cited by 5 publications

References 26 publications

An Evaluation of Stacking and Tiling Features within the Traditional Desktop Metaphor

An Evaluation of Stacking and Tiling Features within the Traditional Desktop Metaphor

Interactive Self‐Organizing Windows

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