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

  • Authors:
  • Quan Xu;Géry Casiez

  • Affiliations:
  • LIFL & INRIA Lille, University of Lille, Lille, France;LIFL & INRIA Lille, University of Lille, Lille, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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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.