A window system with leafing through mode: BookWindow

ABSTRACT

This paper describes “Book Window” that we implemented, a window system based on the “book” metaphor, that displays information not by scrolling but by using the animation of paging through. The BookWindow system equips some bookmarks, tabs, etc., by which we can access to an expected page through our requirements. BookWindow can support our work environment which navigates us through information space flexibly, because human beings are quite familiar with “books”.

REFERENCES

• 1: ELMAR SCHWARZ, ION P. B ELDIE, and SIEGMUND PASTOOR : A Comparison of Paging and Scrolling for Changing Screen Contents by Inexperienced Users, HUMAN FACTORS, 1983.
• 2: Mitsumasa Miyazawa , Kaoru Kinoshita , Minoru Kobayashi , Teruo Yokoyama , Yutaka Matsushita, An electronic book: APTBook, Proceedings of the IFIP TC13 Third Interational Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, p.513-519, August 27-31, 1990
• 3: Ken-ichi Okada, Kaoru Kinoshita, Yutaka Matsushita: Scrolling or Leafing Through: BookWindow, Proc.of 1st Moscow International HCI'91 Workshop, August 1991.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
          Subjects: Windowing systems

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
          Subjects: Interaction styles (e.g., commands, menus, forms, direct manipulation)

  I. Computing Methodologies
  I.7 DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING
      I.7.2 Document Preparation
          Subjects: Hypertext/hypermedia

General Terms:
Human Factors