Focus + Context Screens: A Study and Evaluation

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Bachelor of Science with Honours
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University of Canterbury. Computer Science
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2003
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Mitchell, David
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Display and manipulation of large documents on a standard display has long been a difficult problem. In this report we extend the work of Baudisch in Focus+Context screens. These screens combine a large low resolution display with a standard high resolution display to give a cost effective, large display. This report describes the physical and software implementation of our own focus+context screen. An ecological study is presented that finds focus+context screens have many potential areas of application. Two formal evaluations comparing the screen to other focus+context solutions and investigating the types of task the screen is best suited to. We find that the focus+context screen provides increased performance for tasks at a large scale, especially on documents the user is familiar with, and that users tend to enjoy using the focus+context screen.

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Field of Research::08 - Information and Computing Sciences::0803 - Computer Software
Fields of Research::46 - Information and computing sciences::4603 - Computer vision and multimedia computation::460306 - Image processing
Field of Research::08 - Information and Computing Sciences::0806 - Information Systems::080602 - Computer-Human Interaction
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