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CrossY: a crossing-based drawing application

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UIST '04: Proceedings of the 17th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1029632.1029635

Published: 24 October 2004 Publication History

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We introduce CrossY, a simple drawing application developed as a benchmark to demonstrate the feasibility of goal crossing as the basis for a graphical user interface. We show that crossing is not only as expressive as the current point-and-click interface, but also offers more flexibility in interaction design. In particular, crossing encourages the fluid composition of commands which supports the development of more fluid interfaces. While crossing was previously identified as a potential substitute for the classic point-and-click interaction, this work is the first to report on the practical aspects of implementing an interface based on goal crossing as the fundamental building block.

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