Window Watcher: A visualisation tool for understanding windowing activities

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group - Design: Open 24/7, OZCHI '09

Volumn 411, Issue , 2009, Pages 241-248

  Tak, Susanne ^a   Cockburn, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Data visualisation; Longitudinal analysis; Window management; Window switching

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALISATION; DESIGN OBJECTIVES; LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL DATA; LOW LEVEL; SWITCHING ACTIVITIES; VISUALISATION; WINDOW MANAGEMENT;

DATA HANDLING; DATA VISUALIZATION; DESIGN; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 77952976042     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1738826.1738865     Document Type: Conference Paper

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