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Push-and-pull switching: window switching based on window overlapping

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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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      CHI '10: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
      April 2010
      2690 pages
      ISBN:9781605589299
      DOI:10.1145/1753326

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