Rooms: the use of multiple virtual workspaces to reduce space contention in a window-based graphical user interface

Abstract

A key constraint on the effectiveness of window-based human-computer interfaces is that the display screen is too small for many applications. This results in “window thrashing,” in which the user must expend considerable effort to keep desired windows visible. Rooms is a window manager that overcomes small screen size by exploiting the statistics of window access, dividing the user's workspace into a suite of virtual workspaces with transitions among them. Mechanisms are described for solving the problems of navigation and simultaneous access to separated information that arise from multiple workspaces.

Keywords

WorkspaceWindow (computing)Computer scienceSuiteHuman–computer interactionKey (lock)Constraint (computer-aided design)Graphical user interfaceInterface (matter)User interfaceComputer graphics (images)Operating systemArtificial intelligenceRobotEngineering

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Palo Alto Research Center US

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Year: 1986
Type: article
Volume: 5
Issue: 3
Pages: 211-243
Citations: 521
Access: Closed

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                                    D. Austin Henderson, 
                                
                                    Stuart Card
                                
                            (1986). 
                            Rooms: the use of multiple virtual workspaces to reduce space contention in a window-based graphical user interface. 
                            ACM Transactions on Graphics
                            , 5
                            (3)
                            , 211-243.
                            https://doi.org/10.1145/24054.24056

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DOI: 10.1145/24054.24056