Elastic windows: Improved spatial layout and rapid multiple window operations

Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces AVI

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 29-38

  Kandogan, Eser ^a   Shneiderman, Ben ^a  

^a Institute of Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

CAD; Elastic windows; Multi window operations; Personal role manager; Programming environment; Task switching; Window manager

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY TECHNOLOGIES; MULTI-WINDOW; MULTI-WINDOW SYSTEMS; OVERLAPPING WINDOW; PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT; TASK SWITCHING; WINDOW MANAGER; WORK ENVIRONMENTS;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; MANAGERS;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0009213324     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/948449.948454     Document Type: Conference Paper

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