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Bumping Windows between Monitors
March 1, 2003
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Tim Regan
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Mary Czerwinski
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Brian Meyers
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Greg Smith
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9
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MSR-TR-2003-13
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Abstract
Users’ move from single to multiple monitors so that they can use more screen real estate.
This increase enables them to keep a greater number of windows open and visible at the same
time. But there is a cost: arranging a window takes far longer since there is more screen space to
traverse and more relationships between windows to take into account. To address this we added
‘bumping’ to an application and tested it in a user study. Bumping allowed users to
automatically move a window across multiple monitors. In this paper, we present our experiment
contrasting three styles of bumping. We found less window repositioning required when users
were given bumping in contrast to their existing practices. However we also found that simple
implementations of intelligent bumping are not predictable, causing problems for our
participants.
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