Wideband displays: mitigating multiple monitor seams

Wideband displays fill our field of view, creating new opportunities to develop effective visual interfaces. Although multiple monitors are becoming an affordable way to create wideband displays, the resulting seams create gaps in words and divide diagonal lines into nonaligned segments. We present several novel user interface techniques for creating seam-aware applications, showing that vendors need not wait for affordable seamless displays to exploit the potential of wideband displays. Categories & Subject Descriptors: H5.2 [Information interfaces and presentation (e.g., HCI)] User Interfaces ? Graphical user interfaces (GUI), Screen design (e.g. text, graphics, color), Windowing systems. General Terms: Design, Human Factors.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Jock D. Mackinlay, Jeffrey Heer
• Keywords: Affordable Seamless Displays, CHI 2004, Graphical User Interfaces, Human Computer Interaction, Wideband Displays