research-article

Push-and-pull switching: window switching based on window overlapping

Authors:

Quan Xu,

Géry CasiezAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '10: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 1335 - 1338

https://doi.org/10.1145/1753326.1753526

Published: 10 April 2010 Publication History

Get Access

Abstract

We propose Push-and-Pull Switching, a window switching technique using window overlapping to implicitly define groups. Push-and-Pull Switching enables switching between groups and restacking the focused window to any position to change its group membership. The technique was evaluated in an experiment which found that Push-and-Pull Switching improves switching performance by more than 50% compared to other switching techniques in different scenarios. A longitudinal user study indicates that participants invoked this switching technique 15% of the time on single monitor displays and that they found it easy to understand and use.

Supplementary Material

JPG File (p1335.jpg)

Download
23.21 KB

MOV File (p1335.mov)

Download
28.51 MB

References

[1]

G. Faure, O. Chapuis, and N. Roussel. Power tools for copying and moving: useful stuff for your desktop. In Proc. CHI'09, pages 1675--1678, 2009.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[2]

D. R. Hutchings, G. Smith, B. Meyers, M. Czerwinski, and G. Robertson. Display space usage and window management operation comparisons between single monitor and multiple monitor users. In Proc. AVI '04, pages 32--39, 2004.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[3]

D. R. Hutchings and J. Stasko. Revisiting display space management: understanding current practice to inform next-generation design. In GI '04, pages 127--134, 2004.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[4]

G. Robertson, E. Horvitz, M. Czerwinski, P. Baudisch, D. R. Hutchings, B. Meyers, D. Robbins, and G. Smith. Scalable fabric: flexible task management. In Proc. AVI '04, pages 85--89, 2004.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

[5]

C. Tashman. Windowscape: a task oriented window manager. In Proc. UIST '06, pages 77--80, 2006.

Digital Library

Google Scholar

Cited By

View all

Dubois EReguig IPerelman GLimousin PLouis-Pierre B(2023)Vue Radar: déporter le gestionnaire de fenêtres sur une tabletteProceedings of the 34th Conference on l'Interaction Humain-Machine10.1145/3583961.3583962(1-11)Online publication date: 3-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3583961.3583962
Sato KImada SMazume SNakashima M(2019)A Mechanism of Window Switching Prediction Based on User Operation History to Facilitate MultitaskingAdvances in Networked-based Information Systems10.1007/978-3-030-29029-0_15(154-166)Online publication date: 15-Aug-2019
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29029-0_15
Nakazawa SSuzuki TTanaka TMatsumoto K(2016)Window Manager Designed for Cloud Services with Function of Drawing Window Frame EdgeIEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems10.1541/ieejeiss.136.1237136:8(1237-1245)Online publication date: 2016
https://doi.org/10.1541/ieejeiss.136.1237
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

Push-and-pull switching: window switching based on window overlapping
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Graphical user interfaces

Recommendations

Evaluating visual cues for window switching on large screens
CHI '08: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

An increasing number of users are adopting large, multi-monitor displays. The resulting setups cover such a broad viewing angle that users can no longer simultaneously perceive all parts of the screen. Changes outside the user's visual field often go ...
Window Shopping: A Study of Desktop Window Switching
CHI '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Desktop users frequently open and switch between multiple windows. Here we present an experiment comparing 3 window switching interfaces: the Cards interface spreads windows out like a vertical stack of cards with the most recent window at the front; ...
Supporting window switching with spatially consistent thumbnail zones: design and evaluation
INTERACT'11: Proceedings of the 13th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction - Volume Part I

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 ...

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

CHI '10: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2010

2690 pages

ISBN:9781605589299

DOI:10.1145/1753326

General Chair:
Elizabeth Mynatt
Georgia Institute of Technology
,
Program Chairs:
Geraldine Fitzpatrick
Vienna University of Technology
,
Scott Hudson
Carnegie Mellon University
,
Keith Edwards
Georgia Tech
,
Tom Rodden
University of Nottingham

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 10 April 2010

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article

Conference

CHI '10

Sponsor:

SIGCHI

CHI '10: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 10 - 15, 2010

Georgia, Atlanta, USA

Acceptance Rates

Overall Acceptance Rate 6,199 of 26,314 submissions, 24%

Upcoming Conference

CHI 2025

Sponsor:
sigchi

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 26 - May 1, 2025

Yokohama , Japan

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

8
Total Citations
View Citations
950
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)12
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 09 Jan 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

View all

Dubois EReguig IPerelman GLimousin PLouis-Pierre B(2023)Vue Radar: déporter le gestionnaire de fenêtres sur une tabletteProceedings of the 34th Conference on l'Interaction Humain-Machine10.1145/3583961.3583962(1-11)Online publication date: 3-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3583961.3583962
Sato KImada SMazume SNakashima M(2019)A Mechanism of Window Switching Prediction Based on User Operation History to Facilitate MultitaskingAdvances in Networked-based Information Systems10.1007/978-3-030-29029-0_15(154-166)Online publication date: 15-Aug-2019
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29029-0_15
Nakazawa SSuzuki TTanaka TMatsumoto K(2016)Window Manager Designed for Cloud Services with Function of Drawing Window Frame EdgeIEEJ Transactions on Electronics, Information and Systems10.1541/ieejeiss.136.1237136:8(1237-1245)Online publication date: 2016
https://doi.org/10.1541/ieejeiss.136.1237
Bi XBae SBalakrishnan R(2014)WallTopHuman-Computer Interaction10.1080/07370024.2013.81241129:2(153-203)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1080/07370024.2013.812411
Shibata HOmura KGo KKarashima MFukuzumi SRen X(2012)Docking window frameworkProceedings of the 10th asia pacific conference on Computer human interaction10.1145/2350046.2350092(227-236)Online publication date: 28-Aug-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2350046.2350092
Tashman CEdwards W(2012)WindowScapeACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/2147783.214779119:1(1-33)Online publication date: 4-May-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2147783.2147791
Tak SScarr JGutwin CCockburn A(2011)Supporting window switching with spatially consistent thumbnail zonesProceedings of the 13th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction - Volume Part I10.5555/2042053.2042088(331-347)Online publication date: 5-Sep-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2042053.2042088
Faure GChapuis OBeaudouinLafon MDavid BNoirhomme-Fraiture MTricot A(2010)Perception de la profondeur en gestion de fenêtresProceedings of the 22nd Conference on l'Interaction Homme-Machine10.1145/1941007.1941033(149-152)Online publication date: 20-Sep-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1941007.1941033

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Cited By

Index Terms

Recommendations

Evaluating visual cues for window switching on large screens

Window Shopping: A Study of Desktop Window Switching

Supporting window switching with spatially consistent thumbnail zones: design and evaluation