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Focus plus context screens. Patrick Baudisch, Nathan Good, and Paul Stewart UIST 2001, November 11 th 2001. Hardware At least one hi-res display At least one larger low-res display Software scaling of the display content is preserved resolution varies. <baudisch@parc.xerox.com>.
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Focus plus context screens Patrick Baudisch, Nathan Good,and Paul Stewart UIST 2001, November 11th 2001
Hardware • At least one hi-res display • At least one larger low-res display • Software • scaling of the display content is preserved • resolution varies <baudisch@parc.xerox.com>
Contents • 1. What it is • 2. How it works • 3. What it is good for (video) • 4. Software • 5. Evaluation and conclusions
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Context No reflections on focus screen Focus
The scaling software • Display image on two display units of different resolution • Similar to two-headed display • but display units are overlapping • and one of them has to be scaled down • (Related work “Flux capacitor”[Dr. Emmett Brown, 1985])
clip focus viewer app server scale input context viewer Linux/VNC
Image viewer mouse fork focus .gif ACDsee Photo shop scale input context .gif ACDsee
Display technology homogeneous resolution 4 VisualizationSame # of pixels fisheye overview plus detail 5 4 4 wall-size, hi-res display focus plus context screen
Evaluation • Field study • 12 professionals, 2 gamers • Nobody uses overview plus detail • A list of tasks for the experiments • 1st exp: large static documents • Task completion: 21% and 36% faster • 2nd exp: dynamic dual attention task • Error rate only 1/3 of two-monitor setup
What we learned • We thought:Chip designers need it • We learned:Real strength is dynamic content • Have unexpected context information • Two monitoring tasks at the same time
Try it out! • Demo: Tuesday 5.15