Output support for novel interaction

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Tooltips, Lenses and Side Views

• Output support for novel interaction

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Agenda

• Questions
• Grad school panel/discussion
• Thursday 11am, Room 53 CCB
• FSM example from exam
• Tooltips (5 mins)
• Magic Lens paper (15 mins)
• Side View (Mike Terry) (30 mins)

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Todays Theme

• Ways to use output to enhance interaction and
  exploration
• Tooltips proactive help
• Lenses operations as tools/filters
• Side Views previewing operations

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Tooltips

• What are they?
• Why use them?
• How to model them?
• What is the behavior?

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Modelling Tooltips(with system timer)

• Actions
• A highlight button
• B unhighlight button
• C do button action
• D show tooltip
• E remove tooltip
• F startTimer
• G cancelTimer

InputsMmove Mpress Mdrag Mrelease pause
system event when timer expires
Guardson mouse pos is over button off
mouse pos is off button
off Mdrag
off Mdrag / B
on Mdrag / A
Mrelease
on Mpress / A
on Mdrag
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CHI 94 Movable Filters paper

• The Magic Lens
• What is the motivation?
• How does it work?

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Magic Lens Contributions

• Lens as a metaphor
• Filtering
• of output (redefining draw)
• of input (click-through tools)
• Transparency
• 2-handed operation (more later)
• Composition by overlapping
• visual macro

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Architectural Approaches

• Appearance altering
• Application specific
• Multiple-application

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Instrumental Interaction

• Indirection
• Integration
• Compatibility

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Side Views

• UIST 2002
• Michael Terry and Elizabeth Mynatt
• Take it away, Michael