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Interacting with hidden content using content-aware free-space transparency

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Edward W. Ishak,

Steven K. FeinerAuthors Info & Claims

UIST '04: Proceedings of the 17th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

Pages 189 - 192

https://doi.org/10.1145/1029632.1029666

Published: 24 October 2004 Publication History

Abstract

We present <i>content-aware free-space transparency</i>, an approach to viewing and manipulating the otherwise hidden content of obscured windows through unimportant regions of overlapping windows. Traditional approaches to interacting with otherwise obscured content in a window system render an entire window uniformly transparent. In contrast, content-aware free-space transparency uses opaque-to-transparent gradients and image-processing filters to minimize the interference from overlapping material, based on properties of that material. By increasing the amount of simultaneously visible content and allowing basic interaction with otherwise obscured content, without modifying window geometry, we believe that free-space transparency has the potential to improve user productivity.

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Index Terms

Interacting with hidden content using content-aware free-space transparency
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens
    2. Interaction paradigms
      1. Graphical user interfaces
  2. Interaction design
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Window managers

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UIST '04: Proceedings of the 17th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

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DOI:10.1145/1029632

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Columbia University
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