RelAltTab: assisting users in switching windows

Authors:
Nuria Oliver;Mary Czerwinski;Greg Smith;Kristof Roomp
Affiliations:
Microsoft Research & Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA;Microsoft Research & Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA;Microsoft Research & Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA;Microsoft Research & Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Year:
2008

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Abstract

We present RelAltTab, an enhanced ALT+TAB prototype that assists users in switching windows. Our approach uses semantic and temporal information to create a list of related windows to the window that the user is currently engaged in. The main assumption is that the user is more likely to switch to a related window than to any other window in the system. We propose two different user interfaces that present the related window list to the user. We describe in detail the techniques and user interfaces of the RelAltTab system, and present the results of one user study comparing our approach to the standard Windows ALT+TAB program.