Fall
Quarter Proposal for Justin Choi
Research Technical
and Inteaction Design Issues for the following scenarios:
- Selecting a
window in one display and dragging the window to another device.
- Is this
possible?
- Can this
only occur with certain 'window' types like HTML, etc.
- What's the
best way to make this happen? Should the window become an icon on another
device until it's 'dropped' - either on the desktop or on another window?
- If the 'window'/view
is dropped on another document, how can the receiving application/view
provide feedback as to whether or not it can receive the document. Windows
already provides basic mechanisms for this, but can we use this current
infrastructure
- How does
the event heap play a role in supporting this? or are there are room infrastructure
elements best for supporting this?
- Could an
'iconic' view of other devices pop up or 'potential' set of views to drop
it on and do the dropping locally, then send the message? For example,
a window pops up with all the current views (and what devices they are
on)
- Selecting a
'selected' set of information and dragging to another device and dropping
onto another view/application
- Same set
of issues as above, but need to have some UI mechanism to select and then
drag
The goal for these
scenarios is to support 'overlaying' of information to perform two types of
planning tasks in the iRoom:
- compare two
'views' of similar types, e.g., two schedules, two versions of an HTML type
document ,etc.
- In this
case, the receiving window/view would have to know how to visually compare
the information
- In some
cases, for example, HTML/browsers, the view can represent various types
of information, so how does the receiving
- relate two 'views'
of information of two sets of information, such as a schedule to contractual
information, or a 3D model to a specification or specification item
- The 'dragged'
set of information has to be selectable and what are the best ways to
perform a 'selection' in the context of the iRoom separate from an application/views
standard selection functionality
Deliverables
- Description
of best strategy relative to these issues, from a technical and design perspective
- Set of mockups
for at least one of the scenarios
- Best case: Demonstration
of one element of the overlay functionality