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Clipping Lists Change Borders: Improving Multitasking Efficiency with Peripheral Information Design Mary Czerwinski George Robertson Desney Tan Microsoft Research Peripheral Info can Help Multitaskers Information workers balance many tasks and interruptions and need help to maintain task flow know when to resume tasks more easily reacquire tasks We explore peripheral information design to support these needs Study: compare abstraction techniques Change detection signals when a change has occurred Relevant task information pulling out and showing the most relevant content Scaling shrunken version of all the content ?Which will most improve multitasking efficiency? Results: most relevant task info… + benefits task flow, resumption timing, and reacquisition + improves multitasking performance more than either change detection or scaling Clipping Lists performed best: like WinCuts, cuts out a relevant portion of each task window like Scalable Fabric, arranges clippings in the periphery Outline System design Scalable Fabric, Clipping Lists, Change Borders User study Results Design implications future work Our Designs: Video Study Design Comparing Tradeoffs User Study: Participants 26 users from the Seattle area (10 female) moderate to high experience using computers and Microsoft Office-style applications User Study: Tasks Four tasks designed to mimic real world tasks Quiz - wait for modules to load Uploads - wait for documents to upload Email - wait for quiz answers and upload  task documents to arrive Puzzle - high-attention task done while waiting Quiz User Study: Tasks Four tasks designed to mimic real world tasks Quiz - wait for modules to load Uploads - wait for documents to upload Email - wait for quiz answers and upload  task documents to arrive Puzzle - high-attention task done while waiting Uploads User Study: Tasks Four tasks designed to mimic real world tasks Quiz - wait for modules to load Uploads - wait for doc