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When one isn't enough: an analysis of virtual desktop usage strategies and their implications for design

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Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems archive
CHI '03 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems table of contents

Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA

SESSION: Short talks-Specialized section: editing and coordinating table of contents

Pages: 762 - 763

Year of Publication: 2003

ISBN:1-58113-637-4

Author

Meredith Ringel

Stanford University, Stanford, CA

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Downloads (6 Weeks): 5, Downloads (12 Months): 41, Citation Count: 7

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ABSTRACT

Screen space is a limited resource for computer users-multiple monitors are one means of workspace expansion, and "virtual desktops" are yet another way to increase screen real-estate. We present a taxonomy of organization strategies based on our observations during a series of interviews with virtual desktop users. Additionally, we explore causes of varying user preferences for physical versus virtual means of screen-space expansion. Finally, we discuss the design implications of our findings.

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	1	Jonathan Grudin, Partitioning digital worlds: focal and peripheral awareness in multiple monitor use, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, p.458-465, March 2001, Seattle, Washington, United States [doi>10.1145/365024.365312]
	2	D. Austin Henderson, Jr. , Stuart Card, Rooms: the use of multiple virtual workspaces to reduce space contention in a window-based graphical user interface, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), v.5 n.3, p.211-243, July 1986 [doi>10.1145/24054.24056]
	3	George Robertson , Mary Czerwinski , Kevin Larson , Daniel C. Robbins , David Thiel , Maarten van Dantzich, Data mountain: using spatial memory for document management, Proceedings of the 11th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, p.153-162, November 01-04, 1998, San Francisco, California, United States [doi>10.1145/288392.288596]
	4	George Robertson , Maarten van Dantzich , Daniel Robbins , Mary Czerwinski , Ken Hinckley , Kirsten Risden , David Thiel , Vadim Gorokhovsky, The Task Gallery: a 3D window manager, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, p.494-501, April 01-06, 2000, The Hague, The Netherlands [doi>10.1145/332040.332482]

CITED BY 7

	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
	Dugald Ralph Hutchings , John Stasko, Revisiting display space management: understanding current practice to inform next-generation design, Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Graphics interface, p.127-134, May 17-19, 2004, London, Ontario, Canada
	Dugald Ralph Hutchings , John Stasko , Mary Czerwinski, Distributed display environments, CHI '05 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, April 02-07, 2005, Portland, OR, USA
	Craig Tashman, WindowScape: a task oriented window manager, Proceedings of the 19th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, October 15-18, 2006, Montreux, Switzerland
	Anastasia Bezerianos , Pierre Dragicevic , Ravin Balakrishnan, Mnemonic rendering: an image-based approach for exposing hidden changes in dynamic displays, Proceedings of the 19th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, October 15-18, 2006, Montreux, Switzerland
	William H. Edmondson , Russell Beale, Projected Cognition - extending Distributed Cognition for the study of human interaction with computers, Interacting with Computers, v.20 n.1, p.128-140, January, 2008
	Russell Beale , William Edmondson, Multiple carets, multiple screens and multi-tasking: new behaviours with multiple computers, Proceedings of the 21st British CHI Group Annual Conference on HCI 2007: People and Computers XXI: HCI...but not as we know it, September 03-07, 2007, University of Lancaster, United Kingdom

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Keywords:
information organization, multiple monitors, virtual desktops

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