A comparison of direct-manipulation, selection, and data-entry techniques for re-ordering fields in a table

Authors:
Thomas S. Tullis;Marianne L Kodimer
Affiliations:
Canon Information Systems, Costa Mesa, CA;Canon Information Systems, Costa Mesa, CA
Venue:
CHI '92 Posters and Short Talks of the 1992 SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
1992

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Abstract

A common type of display in many computer systems is a table that shows values of several different properties for a list of files. In designing such a display for a forthcoming product, we thought it would be helpful to allow the user to change the order in which the fields appear in the columns of the table. The specific fields that the user could re-order were file name, number, size, and creation date. Seven different approaches to re-ordering the fields were studied in the Microsoft Windows environment. Due to constraints imposed by the application, it was necessary to have the user do the re-ordering in a dialog box separate from the main display of the files.