skip to main content
10.1145/2554850.2555092acmconferencesArticle/Chapter ViewAbstractPublication PagessacConference Proceedingsconference-collections
research-article

Method for visualizing undone operations based on changes on desktop screen

Published: 24 March 2014 Publication History

Abstract

The undo operation of graphical user interfaces is widely used. However, conventional implementations of undo have two problems: 1) users may not notice undone parts since the operation is instantaneous, and 2) it is difficult to know the undone contents if the user temporarily interrupts a work the user works on multiple operations in parallel. Although there have been several methods developed that improve undo operations, they are for specific applications. Here, we devised a visualization for undone operations that, is independent of the running applications and based on the idea that an undo operation causes display to change. Our method specifies the area affected by the undo operation by screens. We implementedseveral visualization methods including emphasizing the undone area, presenting the undone content, and notifying the user that the undone is not visible.

References

[1]
T. Beriage: A Selective Undo Mechanism for Graphical User Interfaces Based On Command Objects, ACM Transaction on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 269--294 (1994).
[2]
T. Seifried, C. Rendl, M. Haller and S. Scott: Regional Undo / Redo Techniques for Large Interactive Surfaces, Proc. of SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2012), pp. 2855--2864 (2012).
[3]
C. Appert, O. Chapuis, and E. Pietriga: Dwell-and-Spring: Undo for direct manipulation, Proc. of SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI2012), pp. 1957--1966 (2012).
[4]
H. Masuda and A. Imamiya: Design of a Graphical History Browser with Undo Facility, and Visual Search Analysis, Journal of Systems and Computers in Japan Archive, Vol. 35, No. 12, pp. 32--45 (2004).

Recommendations

Comments

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences
SAC '14: Proceedings of the 29th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
March 2014
1890 pages
ISBN:9781450324694
DOI:10.1145/2554850
Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than ACM must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]

Sponsors

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 24 March 2014

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Check for updates

Author Tags

  1. changes on desktop screen
  2. undo operation
  3. user interface
  4. visualization

Qualifiers

  • Research-article

Funding Sources

Conference

SAC 2014
Sponsor:
SAC 2014: Symposium on Applied Computing
March 24 - 28, 2014
Gyeongju, Republic of Korea

Acceptance Rates

SAC '14 Paper Acceptance Rate 218 of 939 submissions, 23%;
Overall Acceptance Rate 1,650 of 6,669 submissions, 25%

Upcoming Conference

SAC '25
The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing
March 31 - April 4, 2025
Catania , Italy

Contributors

Other Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

  • 0
    Total Citations
  • 46
    Total Downloads
  • Downloads (Last 12 months)1
  • Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0
Reflects downloads up to 20 Jan 2025

Other Metrics

Citations

View Options

Login options

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

PDF

eReader

View online with eReader.

eReader

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

Share

Share

Share this Publication link

Share on social media