Applying Reach in Direct Manipulation User Interfaces在直接操作用户界面的应用.pptVIP

Applying Reach in Direct Manipulation User Interfaces Aaron Toney, Bruce H. Thomas School of Computer Information Science University of South Australia Common Sense and Math If you can not convert your “common sense” into a quantifiably testable hypothesis then at best you don’t understand what you are talking about. In order to be useful for use for human authored code design rules, principals, and practices need to be expressible in qualitative terms. The paper uses set notation to encode and test what are otherwise “common sense” relationships. This formal notation was used as it allows programmers not only gain intuition about their users environment but immediate insight into how to implement the software algorithms behind applications dynamically based on user reach. What we show in the paper For individuals, depth of reach predicts the segmentation of the working plane into working and storage areas. For collaborating users regions of overlapping reach enable prediction the formation, size, and shape of shared group spaces. Applied models of reach predicts the rough impact of such variables as working surface size, height, shape, and number of users on the working surface’s utilization. The Reach Envelope Direct manipulation user interfaces are constrained to areas reachable by the user. The On Table Reach Envelope (OTRE) represents the boundary of the set of all reachable points (SR) . An Individuals Reachable Space Reachable space (SR) is the total space reachable by either hand (AL U AR) Bimanual reach (SRB) is (AL ∩ AR) For individuals working space (SW) is equivalent to SRB and the storage space (SS) is the relative complement of the total reachable space and the working space (SR - SRB). A Groups Reachable Space Under the hypothesize that group spaces are formed in preference to personal spaces group space: Group space (SRG) can be described as the intersection of all users’ reachable spaces (∩SR) Co-located working space (SW) can the