Push-and-pull Switching: Window Switching Based on Window Overlapping

Quan Xu1, Géry Casiez1
1Univ. Lille, Inria, UMR 9189 - CRIStAL, France

This page provides additional material to our CHI '10 paper.

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.

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Xu, Q. & Casiez, G. (2010). Push-and-pull Switching: Window Switching Based on Window Overlapping. In proceedings of CHI'10, the 28th Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1335-1338. ACM.