MultipleWindow Strategies

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Multiple-Window Strategies

• Through even the smallest window the eye can
  reach the most distant horizon
• A. Bergman, Visual Realities, 1992

Keyi Niu
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• Challenge
• providing access to multiple sources of
  information
• Solutions
• Multiple monitors
• Rapid display flipping
• Split display
• Space-filling tiling with fixed num, size, place.
• Space-filling tiling with variable num, size,
  place
• Non-space-filling tiling
• Piles of tiles
• Window zooming
• Arbitrary overlap
• Cascade

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Type of Multiple-Window

• Operating System Level
• Mac OS
• MS Window
• X-Window

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Mac OS 8.0
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X-Window
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Type of Multiple-Window

• Application Level
• Thumbnail
• Card-like
• Pop-up

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Thumbnail
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Multiple-Pane/Card
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Pop-up
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Type of Multiple-Window

• Web Page
• Frame
• Pop-up
• Cascade

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Next Generation of Multiple-Window

• Tightly-Coupled Coordinated window
• Visible Human
• nScope for OpenView
• FlightTrack 3D
• GigaSampler

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Next Generation of Multiple-Window

• Web-Book
• Multiple-DOF
• Zooming
• FishEye (Distort)
• Elastic Window