%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Supporting Window Switching with Spatially Consistent Thumbnail Zones: Design and Evaluation
%+ University of Canterbury [Christchurch]
%+ University of Saskatchewan [Saskatoon, Canada] (U of S)
%A Tak, Susanne
%A Scarr, Joey
%A Gutwin, Carl
%A Cockburn, Andy
%Z Part 2: Long and Short Papers
%< avec comité de lecture
%( Lecture Notes in Computer Science
%B 13th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT)
%C Lisbon, Portugal
%Y Pedro Campos
%Y Nicholas Graham
%Y Joaquim Jorge
%Y Nuno Nunes
%Y Philippe Palanque
%Y Marco Winckler
%I Springer
%3 Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2011
%V LNCS-6946
%N Part I
%P 331-347
%8 2011-09-05
%D 2011
%R 10.1007/978-3-642-23774-4_27
%K window switching
%K revisitation
%K spatial stability
%K predictability
%Z Computer Science [cs]Conference papers
%X Computer users switch between applications and windows all day, but finding the target window can be difficult, particularly when the total number of windows is high. We describe the design and evaluation of a new window switcher called SCOTZ (for Spatially Consistent Thumbnail Zones). SCOTZ is a window switching interface which shows all windows grouped by application and allocates more space to the most frequently revisited applications. The two key design principles of SCOTZ are (1) predictability of window locations, and (2) improved accessibility of recently and frequently used windows. We describe the design and features of SCOTZ, and present the findings from qualitative and empirical studies which demonstrate that SCOTZ yields performance and preference benefits over existing window switching tools.
%G English
%Z TC 13
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01590560/document
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01590560/file/978-3-642-23774-4_27_Chapter.pdf
%L hal-01590560
%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-01590560
%~ IFIP-LNCS
%~ IFIP
%~ IFIP-TC
%~ IFIP-TC13
%~ IFIP-INTERACT
%~ IFIP-LNCS-6946