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An application-independent system for visualizing user operation history

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Toshio Nakamura,

Takeo IgarashiAuthors Info & Claims

UIST '08: Proceedings of the 21st annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1449715.1449721

Published: 19 October 2008 Publication History

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A history-of-user-operations function helps make applications easier to use. For example, users may have access to an operation history list in an application to undo or redo a past operation. To provide an overview of a long operation history and help users find target interactions or application states quickly, visual representations of operation history have been proposed. However, most previous systems are tightly integrated with target applications and difficult to apply to new applications. We propose an application-independent method that can visualize the operation history of arbitrary GUI applications by monitoring the input and output GUI events from outside of the target application. We implemented a prototype system that visualizes operation sequences of generic Java Awt/Swing applications using an annotated comic strip metaphor. We tested the system with various applications and present results from a user study.

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UIST '08: Proceedings of the 21st annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

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DOI:10.1145/1449715

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