Flat volume control: Improving usability by hiding the volume control hierarchy in the user interface

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 255-262

  Baudisch, Patrick ^a   Pruitt, John ^b   Ball, Steve ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Audio; Sound; User interface; Volume control

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GAIN CONTROL; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FLAT VOLUME CONTROL; INFORMATION INTERFACES; VIDEO CLIPS; WAVE CHANNELS;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 4544357636     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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