SIGGRAPH '86 Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Designing visual interfaces: communication oriented techniques
Designing visual interfaces: communication oriented techniques
A new direct manipulation technique for aligning objects in drawing programs
Proceedings of the 9th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
3D scene manipulation with 2D devices and constraints
GRIN'01 No description on Graphics interface 2001
HCC '01 Proceedings of the IEEE 2001 Symposia on Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments (HCC'01)
C3W: clipping, connecting and cloning for the web
Proceedings of the 13th international World Wide Web conference on Alternate track papers & posters
Proceedings of the 17th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Citrine: providing intelligent copy-and-paste
Proceedings of the 17th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Effectiveness of Cloning Techniques for Architectural Virtual Environments
VR '06 Proceedings of the IEEE conference on Virtual Reality
CorelDRAW X3 Unleashed
A malleable physical interface for copying, pasting, and organizing digital clips
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction
The non-designer's design book, third edition
The non-designer's design book, third edition
Intelligent Mouse-Based Object Group Selection
SG '08 Proceedings of the 9th international symposium on Smart Graphics
Handle Flags: efficient and flexible selections for inking applications
Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2009
Interfaces for cloning in immersive virtual environments
EGVE'04 Proceedings of the Tenth Eurographics conference on Virtual Environments
Neat: a set of flexible tools and gestures for layout tasks on interactive displays
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
Cloning objects is a common operation in graphical user interfaces. One example is calendar systems, where users commonly create and modify recurring events, i.e. repeated clones of a single event. Inspired by the calendar paradigm, we introduce a new cloning technique for 2D drawing programs. This technique allows users to clone objects by first selecting them and then dragging them to create clones along the dragged path. Moreover, it allows editing the generated sequences of clones similar to the editing of calendar events. Novel approaches for the generation of clones of clones are also presented. We compared our new clone creation technique with generic duplication via copy-and-paste, smart duplication, and a dialog driven technique on a standard desktop system. The results show that the new cloning method is always faster than dialogs and smart duplication for most conditions. We also compared our clone editing method against rectangular selection. The results show that our method is better in general. In situations where rectangle selection is effective, our method is still competitive. Participants preferred the new techniques overall, too.