• Lightweight Task/Application Performance using Single versus Multiple Monitors: A Comparative Study (GI 2008)
• Quantifying the Performance Effect of Window Snipping in Multiple-monitor Environments INTERACT 2007)
• Consistency, Multiple Monitors, and Multiple Windows (CHI 2007 Note)
• Making Multiple Monitors More Manageable (Hutchings dissertation)
• TaskZones: A Task Manager for Multiple-Monitor Systems (UIST 2005 poster)
• Distributed Display Environments (CHI 2005 workshop)
• mudibo: Multiple Dialog boxes for Multiple Monitors (CHI 2005 short paper)
• Revisiting Display Space Management: Understanding Current Practice to Inform Next-generation Design (GI 2004)
• Display Space Usage and Window Management Operation Comparisons between Single Monitor and Multiple Monitor Users. (AVI 2004)
• Shrinking Window Operations for Expanding Display Space (AVI 2004 short paper)
• An interview-based study of display space management (Tech Report)
• New Operations for Display Space Management and Window Management (Tech Report)
• QuickSpace: New Operations for the Desktop Metaphor (CHI 2002 Short Paper)

Summary

This webpage presents a brief overview of the M5 project: Making Multiple Monitors More Manageable. With the increased research attention in the area of multiple-monitor systems and the rising ubiquity of them, there are many different issues that need to be addressed. Initial work in the area indicates that one such issue will be window management, as users now may have twice or thrice as much display area to manage as they had previously.

We contend that despite many interesting and important pieces of research related to window management, as a research community we still know very little of both the way people actually use window operations and of the higher-level intentions behind such use. Such an understanding can greatly benefit those attempting to solve window management issues specifically for multiple monitor systems since their solutions can incorporate a broader understanding of user goals. We have conducted two studies of window management to develop a better understanding of window management; links are listed above.

We are grateful that the National Science Foundation has provided support for the M5 project under Grant #0414667.

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