| Authors |
Waldner Manuela, Steinberger Markus, Grasset Raphael, Schmalstieg Dieter |
| Appeared in |
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| Organization |
ACM |
| Date |
May 2011 |
| Abstract |
In this paper we present importance-driven compositing
window management, which considers windows not only as
basic rectangular shapes but also integrates the importance
of the windows’ content using a bottom-up visual attention
model. Based on this information, importance-driven compositing
optimizes the spatial window layout for maximum
visibility and interactivity of occluded content in combination
with see-through windows. We employ this technique
for emerging window manager functions to minimize information
overlap caused by popping up windows or floating
toolbars and to improve the access to occluded window content.
An initial user study indicates that our technique provides
a more effective and satisfactory access to occluded
information than the well-adopted Alt+Tab window switching
technique and see-through windows without optimized
spatial layout. |
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