Elastic Windows for Rapid Multiple Window Management

With current approaches of window management, visibility and arrangement of multiple windows is a problem. We have developed a new windowing approach, called Elastic Windows, where windows are organized in a hierarchical fashion on a space filling tiled layout. It supports multiple window operations which enable fast task-switching and reorganization of the windows according to tasks.

	Elastic Windows: Hierarchical Window Organization *supports rapid visually scalable* information organization Multiple Window Operations supports rapid access to information Space-filling tiled elastic layout dynamics supports rapid restructuring of information as users reformulate their goals [Elasticity Animation]**
	An Elastic Mail-Tool: organize related e-mails spatially overview of all correspondance facilitate comparison and filtering [Scenario] [Order Video]
	Personal Role Manager: provide hierarchical contexts for organization of information according to users' roles multiple hierarchical roles overlapping roles focus on roles at any level of detail combine roles, restructure role hierarchy
	WWW Browser: personalize the WWW reflects semantic relationship among documents keep a visual history of exploration explore multiple links by multiple open provide infromation hiding provide easy structure manipulation [Scenario] [Order Video]

Participants:

Eser Kandogan, Graduate Student Computer Science
Ben Shneiderman, Professor Computer Science

Publications:

Eser Kandogan, Ben Shneiderman, Elastic Windows: Improved Spatial Layout and Rapid Multiple Window Operations, ACM AVI'96 Advanced Visual Interfaces, Gubbio, Italy, pp. 29-38, (May 1996). [HTML] [Abstract]
Eser Kandogan, Ben Shneiderman, Elastic Windows: Evaluation of Multi-Window Operations, ACM SIGCHI 97 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (March 1997). [HTML] [Abstract]
Eser Kandogan, Ben Shneiderman, Elastic Windows: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Multi-Window Operations, Software Practice and Experience (SPE), Volume 28, 1998.
Eser Kandogan, Layout Dynamics Formalism and Metrics in Visualization and Editing of Large Complex Structures, work in progress.
Eser Kandogan, Ben Shneiderman, Elastic Windows: A Hierarchical Multi-Window World-Wide Web Browser, Proc. ACM UIST97 Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, October 1997, 169-177. [Talk] [Abstract]

Talks:

	Elastic Windows: Evaluation of Multi-Window Operations, ACM SIGCHI, March 1997 [HTML]
	Elastic Windows for rapid multiple window management, HCIL, 13th Annual Symposium and Open House, May 1996.

Video Reports:

Using Elastic Windows for World-Wide Web Browsing, HCIL Open House, May 1997 [Order Video]
Elastic Windows for Rapid Multiple Window Management, HCIL Open House, May 1996, [Order Video]

In Press:

The Chronicle of Higher Education on April 4th, 1997 "New Ways of Organizing Data Could Change Nature of Computers" by Jeffrey R. Young