| R HumanFactors ABSTRACT inComputing Systems CHI’940 “Celeb~ating Interdependence” A Taxonomy of See-Through Tools (2008) | |||||||||||||||||
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| In current interfaces, users select objects, apply operations, and change viewing parameters in distinct steps that require switching attention among several screen areas. Our See-Through InterfaceTht software reduces steps by locating tools on a transparent sheet that can be moved over applications with one hand using a trackball, while the other hand controls a mouse cursor. The user clicks through a tool onto applica-tion objects, simultaneously selecting an operation and an operand. Toois may include graphical filters that display a customized view of application objects. Compared to tradi-tional interactors, these tools save steps, require no permanent screen space, reduce temporal modes, apply to multiple appli-cations, and facilitate customization. This paper presents a taxonomy of see-through tools that considers variations in each of the steps they perform. As examples, we describe particular see-through tools that perform graphical editing and text editing operations. | |||||||||||||||||
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