Altering Input and Output for Interesting Interactions

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The Magic Lens

• Altering Input and Output for Interesting
  Interactions

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Agenda

• Questions
• Uses of input/output to enhance interaction
• Tooltips
• The Magic Lens paper
• CHI 97 Video
• Side Views, a local product

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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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Care to model it?
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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)
• Composition by overlapping
• visual macro
• Transparency

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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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2-handed operation

• A natural extension
• We will discuss this in a separate lecture
• A motivating example CHI97 video
• A GUI Paradigm Using Tablets, Two Hands and
  Transparency. G Fitzmaurice, T. Baudel, G.
  Kurtenbach, B. Buxton. Alias/Wavefront, Toronto

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Side Views, a local product

• Michael Terry and Elizabeth Mynatt. Supporting
  experimentation with Side Views. In Proceedings
  of UIST 2002, Paris, France.