Edward W. Ishak

K.: Free-Space Transparency: exposing hidden content through unimportant screen space (2008)

Edward W. Ishak, Steven K. Feiner

We present free-space transparency, a method that renders unimportant regions of a window as transparent. This allows users to view screen content that lies beneath these regions. By maximizing the...

Interfaces and Presentation]: User Interfaces—Graphical (2008)

Edward W. Ishak, Steven K. Feiner, Windowing Systems

We present content-aware free-space transparency, an approach to viewing and manipulating the otherwise hidden content of obscured windows through unimportant regions of overlapping windows....

Figure 1: Window Rendered (a) Without Freespace (2007)

Transparency And With, Edward W. Ishak, Steven K. Feiner

We present free-space transparency, a method that renders unimportant regions of a window as transparent. This allows users to view screen content that lies beneath these regions. By maximizing the...

Entity Workspace: an evidence file that aids memory, inference, and reading (2006)

Eric A. Bier, Edward W. Ishak

Abstract. An intelligence analyst often needs to keep track of more facts than can be held in human memory. As a result, analysts use a notebook or evidence file to record facts learned so far. In...

Entity quick click: rapid text copying based on automatic entity extraction (2006)

Eric A. Bier, Edward W. Ishak

Retyping text phrases can be time consuming. As a result, techniques for copying text from one software application to another, such as copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop are now commonplace. However,...

Entity quick click: rapid text copying based on automatic entity extraction (2006)

Eric A. Bier, Edward W. Ishak

Retyping text phrases can be time consuming. As a result, techniques for copying text from one software application to another, such as copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop are now commonplace. However,...

Content-Aware Scrolling (2006)

Edward W. Ishak, Steven K. Feiner

Scrolling is used to navigate large information spaces on small screens, but is often too restrictive or cumbersome to use for particular types of content, such as multi-page, multi-column documents....

Entity quick click: rapid text copying based on automatic entity extraction (2006)

Eric A. Bier, Edward W. Ishak

Retyping text phrases can be time consuming. As a result, techniques for copying text from one software application to another, such as copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop are now commonplace. However,...

Cross-Dimensional Gestural Interaction Techniques for Hybrid Immersive Environments (2005)

Hrvoje Benko, Edward W. Ishak, Steven Feiner

www.cs.columbia.edu/graphics We present a set of interaction techniques for a hybrid user interface that integrates existing 2D and 3D visualization and interaction devices. Our approach is built...

Cross-Dimensional Gestural Interaction Techniques for Hybrid Immersive Environments (2004)

Benko, Hrvoje, Ishak, Edward W., Feiner, Steven

We present a set of interaction techniques for a hybrid user interface that integrates existing 2D and 3D visualization and interaction devices. Our approach is built around one- and two-handed...

Collaborative mixed reality visualization of an archaeological excavation (2004)

Hrvoje Benko, Edward W. Ishak, Steven Feiner

www.cs.columbia.edu/graphics We present * VITA (Visual Interaction Tool for Archaeology), an experimental collaborative mixed reality system for offsite visualization of an archaeological dig. Our...