Piles across space: Breaking the real-estate barrier on small-display devices

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 349-365

  Wang, QianYing ^a   Hsieh, Tony ^b   Paepcke, Andreas ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Information management; Information sharing; Mobile computing; PDA; Piles; Screen real estate

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY DEVICES; FLUORESCENT SCREENS; HAND HELD COMPUTERS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MOBILE COMPUTING; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS;

IN-SITU; INFORMATION SHARING; LONG-TERM RETENTIONS; MULTIPLE SETS; PDA; PILE LOCATIONS; SCREEN REAL-ESTATE; SMALL-SCREEN DEVICES; USER STUDIES; VIDEO FILES; VISUAL CUES;

PILES;

EID: 59649096437     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: 10959300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2008.10.004     Document Type: Article

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