Piles, tabs and overlaps in navigation among documents
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Piles, tabs and overlaps in navigation among documents. / Jakobsen, Mikkel Rønne; Hornbæk, Kasper.
Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: extending boundaries. Association for Computing Machinery, 2010. p. 246-255.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Piles, tabs and overlaps in navigation among documents
AU - Jakobsen, Mikkel Rønne
AU - Hornbæk, Kasper
N1 - Conference code: 6
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Navigation among documents is a frequent, but ill supported activity. Overlapping or tabbed documents are widespread, but they offer limited visibility of their content. We explore variations on navigation support: arranging documents with tabs, as overlapping windows, and in piles. In an experiment we compared 11 participants’ navigation with these variations and found strong task effects. Overall, overlapping windows were preferred and their structured layout worked well with some tasks. Surprisingly, tabbed documents were efficient in tasks requiring simply finding a document. Piled documents worked well for tasks that involved visual features of the documents, but the utility of recency or stable ordering of documents was task dependent. Based on the results, we discuss the effects of spatial arrangement, visibility, and task-dependency, and suggest areas for future research on document navigation and its support by piling.
AB - Navigation among documents is a frequent, but ill supported activity. Overlapping or tabbed documents are widespread, but they offer limited visibility of their content. We explore variations on navigation support: arranging documents with tabs, as overlapping windows, and in piles. In an experiment we compared 11 participants’ navigation with these variations and found strong task effects. Overall, overlapping windows were preferred and their structured layout worked well with some tasks. Surprisingly, tabbed documents were efficient in tasks requiring simply finding a document. Piled documents worked well for tasks that involved visual features of the documents, but the utility of recency or stable ordering of documents was task dependent. Based on the results, we discuss the effects of spatial arrangement, visibility, and task-dependency, and suggest areas for future research on document navigation and its support by piling.
U2 - 10.1145/1868914.1868945
DO - 10.1145/1868914.1868945
M3 - Article in proceedings
SN - 978-1-60558-934-3
SP - 246
EP - 255
BT - Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Y2 - 16 October 2010 through 20 October 2010
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