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RelAltTab: assisting users in switching windows

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International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces archive
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces table of contents

Gran Canaria, Spain

SESSION: Short papers table of contents

Pages 385-388

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-59593-987-6

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Nuria Oliver	Microsoft Research & Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Mary Czerwinski	Microsoft Research & Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Greg Smith	Microsoft Research & Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Kristof Roomp	Microsoft Research & Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA

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SIGART: ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
AAAI : Association for the Advancement of Artifical Intelligence
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ABSTRACT

We present RelAltTab, an enhanced ALT+TAB prototype that assists users in switching windows. Our approach uses semantic and temporal information to create a list of related windows to the window that the user is currently engaged in. The main assumption is that the user is more likely to switch to a related window than to any other window in the system. We propose two different user interfaces that present the related window list to the user. We describe in detail the techniques and user interfaces of the RelAltTab system, and present the results of one user study comparing our approach to the standard Windows ALT+TAB program.

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	1	M. Czerwinski et al. Toward characterizing the productivity benefits of very large displays. In Human-Computer Interaction. INTERACT '03, 2003.
	2	Dugald Ralph Hutchings , Greg Smith , Brian Meyers , Mary Czerwinski , George Robertson, Display space usage and window management operation comparisons between single monitor and multiple monitor users, Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces, May 25-28, 2004, Gallipoli, Italy [doi>10.1145/989863.989867]
	3	M. Kumar, A. Paepcke, and T. Winograd. Eyeexpos'e: Switching applications with your eyes. Technical report, Stanford University, February 2007.
	4	Nuria Oliver , Greg Smith , Chintan Thakkar , Arun C. Surendran, SWISH: semantic analysis of window titles and switching history, Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces, January 29-February 01, 2006, Sydney, Australia [doi>10.1145/1111449.1111492]