CHI '91 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The computer user as toolsmith: the use, reuse, and organization of computer-based tools
The computer user as toolsmith: the use, reuse, and organization of computer-based tools
User interface affordances in a planning representation
Human-Computer Interaction
Characterizing tool use in an interactive drawing environment
Proceedings of the 2nd international symposium on Smart graphics
Power tools and composite tools: integrating automation with direct manipulation
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
HabilisDraw DT: a bimanual tool-based direct manipulation drawing environment
CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Graphical user interfaces rely heavily on the tool metaphor. In most drawing systems, for example, functions are organized as they might be on a workbench; buttons associated with drawing modes for lines or rectangles are called line-drawing or rectangle-drawing tools; etc. Despite the similarities, however, there remain many differences between software tools and physical tools. This paper gives a concise account of tool use in general, and describes a drawing application, called HabilisDraw, that relies on a detailed correspondence to physical tool behavior.