A taxonomy of see-through tools
CHI '94 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Translucent patches—dissolving windows
UIST '94 Proceedings of the 7th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
The Oval Menu - Evolution and Evaluation of a Widget
OZCHI '96 Proceedings of the 6th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OZCHI '96)
Semantic Telepointers for Groupware
OZCHI '96 Proceedings of the 6th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OZCHI '96)
Interactive visualisation of a travel itinerary
AVI '00 Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
Scenario-Based Requirements for Web Macro Tools
VLHCC '07 Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
Using scenario-based requirements to direct research on web macro tools
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
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Copy and paste, or cut and paste, using a clipboard or paste buffer has long been the principle facility provided to users for transferring data between and within GUI applications. We argue that this mechanism can be clumsy in circumstances where several pieces of information must be moved systematically - for example, extracting a predetermined set of data fields from a piece of unstructured text. In dealing with the plethora of potentially useful, but not appropriately structured, information on the World Wide Web, interfaces which facilitate manual information gathering are of considerable importance. We present an alternative, more natural, user interface facility to make the task less onerous, and to provide improved visual feedback during the operation. We call our facility the "Stretchable Selection Tool", a semi-transparent overlay augmenting the mouse pointer to automate paste operations and provide information to prompt the user. We describe a prototype implementation that functions in a collaborative software environment, allowing users to cooperate on multiple copy/paste operations.