Design of a graphical history browser with Undo facility, and visual search analysis
Design of a graphical history browser with Undo facility, and visual search analysis
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具有撤消功能的图形历史浏览器的设计和可视化搜索分析
DOI：
10.1002/scj.10431
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2004
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A. Imamiya
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作者：
Hisanori Masuda;A. Imamiya
现有的交互系统为用户提供了各种工具来使系统从错误中恢复。例如，大多数直接操作图形界面都包含撤消/重做工具，用户可以通过该工具取消错误的操作。然而，它们只是简单的机制或者仅提供以文本列表表示的命令历史，很难从中找到用户想要的命令或状态。本文的目的是实现一个帮助用户有选择地、轻松地使用Undo的界面，讨论图形历史浏览器的设计和实现，并描述利用历史浏览器的可视化搜索实验和分析。历史浏览器包括以下功能。 (1) 对每个图形对象的操作命令进行分组。 (2)以翻页漫画的形式提供由操作屏幕的快照组成的图形历史。为了检验命令分组的有效性，与没有分组的传统技术进行了实验比较。结果，从任务执行时间和受试者主观评价的角度显示了实验任务命令分组的有效性。此外，为了研究历史浏览器的特点以及用户在历史搜索中的行为，进行了任务实验，其中使用历史浏览器显示和两个图形并行显示两种历史显示方法来直观地搜索两个图形之间的差异。对任务执行时间、误差以及被试的眼动数据进行分析，结果表明，利用历史浏览器的翻转功能，用户可以快速、准确地从指定的刺激显示中找到差异。 © 2004 Wiley periodicals, Inc. Syst Comp Jpn, 35(12): 32–45, 2004；在线发表于 Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com)。 DOI 10.1002/scj.10431
Existing interactive systems provide the user with various tools to make the system recover from an error. Most direct‐manipulation graphical interfaces, for example, include an Undo/Redo tool, by which the user can cancel an erroneous action. However, they are only simple mechanisms or provide only a command history represented by a text list, from which it is difficult to find the command or state desired by the user. The purpose of this paper is to realize an interface which helps the user to utilize Undo selectively and easily, to discuss the design and implementation of a graphical history browser, and to describe a visual search experiment and analysis utilizing the history browser. The history browser includes the following functions. (1) Operation commands for each figure object are grouped. (2) The graphical history composed of snapshots of the operation screen is provided as a flip comic. In order to examine the effectiveness of command grouping, an experimental comparison is made with the conventional techniques without grouping. As a result, the effectiveness of command grouping for the experimental task is shown from the viewpoints of task execution time and subjective evaluation by the subject. In addition, in order to investigate the features of the history browser and the behavior of the user in history search, a task experiment is performed in which two methods of history display—display of the history browser and parallel displays of two figures—are used to search visually for the difference between the two figures. The task execution time, the error, and the eye‐movement data of the subject are analyzed, and it is shown that by utilizing the flip function of the history browser, the user can find differences quickly and exactly from the specified stimulus display. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Syst Comp Jpn, 35(12): 32–45, 2004; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/scj.10431