A taxonomy of see-through tools

Bier, Eric A.; Stone, Maureen; Fishkin, Ken; Buxton, William; Baudel, Thomas

doi:10.1145/191666.191786

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“…The window has also a close button (x button), an add button (+button) and an undo button. The pop-up [25] toolglass widgets (see-through user interface), these windows are transparent and permit specific action, i.e. drawing with blue colour due to the fact that the three-fingers-chord was chosen.…”

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Design and implement chords and personal windows for multi-user collaboration on a large multi-touch vertical display

Leftheriotis

Chorianopoulos

Jaccheri

2016

Hum. Cent. Comput. Inf. Sci.

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Co-located collaboration on large vertical screens has become technically feasible, but users are faced with increased effort, or have to wear intrusive personal identifiers. Previous research on co-located collaboration has assumed that all users perform exactly the same task (e.g., moving and resizing photos), or that they negotiate individual actions in turns. However, there is limited user interface software that supports simultaneous performance of individual actions during shared tasks (Fig. 1a). As a remedy, we have introduced multi-touch chords (Fig. 1b) and personal action windows (Fig. 1c) for co-located collaboration on a large multi-touch vertical display. Instead of selecting an item in a fixed menu by reaching for it, users work simultaneously on shared tasks by means of personal action windows, which are triggered by multi-touch chords performed anywhere on the display. In order to evaluate the proposed technique with users, we introduced an experimental task, which stands for the group dynamics that emerge during shared tasks on a large display. A grounded theory analysis of users’ behaviour provided insights into established co-located collaboration topics, such as conflict resolution strategies and space negotiation. The main contribution of this work is the design and implementation of a novel seamless identification and interaction technique that supports diverse multi-touch interactions by multiple users: multi-touch chord interaction along with personal action windows.

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Section: Interaction Design and Application Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design and implement chords and personal windows for multi-user collaboration on a large multi-touch vertical display

Leftheriotis

Chorianopoulos

Jaccheri

2016

Hum. Cent. Comput. Inf. Sci.

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“…Each configuration should appear in less than 100ms to maintain continuous interaction. Overlapping techniques such as Magic Lenses [5] and Excentric Labels [10] show transient information over the visualization and can be used effectively on dense data. Several interactive techniques have been designed to enhance the interaction for visualization and sparing screen real estate.…”

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“…Several interactive techniques have been designed to enhance the interaction for visualization and sparing screen real estate. See-through tools [5] are interactive enhancements to Magic lenses; they filter the visualization in-place using transparency or overlapping. Extensions of Pie-Menus [6] such as Control Menus [19] can be used to overlay controls without using permanent screen real estate.…”

Section: Interactive Techniquesmentioning

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Interactive Information Visualization of a Million Items

Fekete

Plaisant

2003

The Craft of Information Visualization

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“…The input window is fairly large, so as to let users write at their preferred size. In order to avoid masking a large portion of the radar image for too long, this window is semi-transparent, after Xerox's see-through tools [2] (see figure 6).…”

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Toward Pen-Based Interaction with ATC Tools

Chatty

Lecoanet

Mertz

1995

Air Traffic Control Quarterly

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Modernizing workstations for air traffic controllers is a challenge: designers must increase efficiency without affecting safety in any way. Air traffic control is a time-intensive and safety-critical activity, and thus interaction efficiency and low error rates are crucial. Classical interaction techniques have been used in prototype workstations, but the resulting efficiency is not always satisfactory. This leads designers to consider more advanced interaction techniques. This paper reports on the design and a preliminary evaluation of the first prototype of project IMAGINE, which represents the second generation of graphical interfaces for air traffic control. This prototype, GRIGRI, uses a high resolution touch screen and provides mark based input through the screen. The use of gestures, as well as the use of multi-modal techniques, make interaction faster, and closer to the controllers' habits.Air Traffic Control Quarterly, Vol 3(4), pp. 205-228 (1995) 2 INTRODUCTIONDuring the 80s, a number of modern countries including France have decided to modernize their air traffic control working positions. Their goal was usually twofold: replacing obsolete equipment was a good opportunity for improving the productivity of controllers, through the use of state-of-the-art hardware and software. The hopes of many specialists were that artificial intelligence or other software techniques would help alleviate the controller's workload, through conflict resolution tools for instance. User interfaces were seen as a more technical issue, mainly related to the number and the complexity of the pieces of information to be displayed. Screen size and the use of colour to code information were the most obvious issues, and the design of electronic flight strips was the next challenge. With the advent of the Macintosh in 1983, graphical interaction looked very promising, and only needed to be adapted to air traffic control, with research on which pointing device was best suited.In France, these hopes led to the PHIDIAS project, launched in 1986. PHIDIAS is aimed at replacing the current en-route air traffic control workstations within the next few years, and it is now in its final development stage. It makes heavy use of classical interaction techniques, and most of its original features are to be found in its hardware or low-level software components. PHIDIAS provides a standard WIMP (windows, icon, mouse, pointer) interface on two screens, one of which is a square 20" wide Sony screen. A lot of work has been spent on identifying and solving the software issues raised by such a large screen, especially the management of many graphical objects moving independently. This work has lead to a workstation which offers good performances, and whose hardware and software architecture are undisputed. A consensus has been reached about the look of the radar image: a colour coding scheme has been adopted, and even the palette of colours is now being approved, after a study with ergonomists and vision specialists.If those technical issues ha...

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A taxonomy of see-through tools

Cited by 90 publications

References 19 publications

Design and implement chords and personal windows for multi-user collaboration on a large multi-touch vertical display

Design and implement chords and personal windows for multi-user collaboration on a large multi-touch vertical display

Interactive Information Visualization of a Million Items

Toward Pen-Based Interaction with ATC Tools

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