Improving window switching interfaces

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5727 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2009, Pages 187-200

  Tak, Susanne ^a   Cockburn, Andy ^a   Humm, Keith ^a   Ahlström, David ^b   Gutwin, Carl ^c   Scarr, Joey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Revisitation patterns; Spatial constancy; Window switching

Indexed keywords

CURRENT SWITCHING; DESIGN IDEAS; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEW APPLICATIONS; REVISITATION; REVISITATION PATTERNS; SPATIAL CONSTANCY; RE VISITATIONS; WINDOW SWITCHING;

ELECTRIC SWITCHGEAR; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SWITCHING;

WINDOWS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 70349581937     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03658-3_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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