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Dynamic Space Management for User Interfaces (2000)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
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| Author | Bell, Blaine A. Feiner, Steven K. |
| Description | We present a general approach to the dynamic representation of 2D space that is well suited for userinterface layout. We partition space into two distinct categories: full and empty. The user can explicitly specify a set of possibly overlapping upright rectangles that represent the objects of interest. These full-space rectangles are processed by the system to create a representation of the remaining empty space. This representation makes it easy for users to develop customized spatial allocation strategies that avoid overlapping the full-space rectangles. We describe the representation; provide efficient incremental algorithms for adding and deleting full-space rectangles, and for querying the empty-space representation; and show several allocation strategies that the representation makes possible. We present two testbed applications that incorporate an implementation of the algorithm; one shows the utility of our representation for window management tasks; the other applies it to the layout of components in a 3D user interface, based on the upright 2D bounding boxes of their projections. |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | ACM Press |
| Publisher Date | 2000-01-01 |
| Publisher Institution | In Proc. UIST’00 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Empty Space User Interface Full-space Rectangle Upright Rectangle General Approach Window Management Task Customized Spatial Allocation Strategy Dynamic Space Management Userinterface Layout Efficient Incremental Algorithm Distinct Category Empty-space Representation Several Allocation Strategy Dynamic Representation |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
