ManySpector

Validation level: 5. CHI, UIST, CSCW and TOCHI paper publication

An inspector for multiple objects that helps visualize and interact with used values.

Publications
Copy Bibtex Hoarau, R. and Conversy, S. Augmenting the Scope of Interactions with Implicit and Explicit Graphical Structures. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 1937-1946, ACM, New York, NY, USA, CHI '12 , 2012.
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Highlights:

Graphical properties get reified into interactive, semi-persistent objects whose values can be copied to other objects, as well as properties, with drag-and-drop interactions.

Limitations:

Property objects are semi-persistent in the sense that they persist in an inspector panel for as long as the objects that possess those properties are selected. Deselecting them causes the related properties to become unavailable for further interaction until the object or objects get re-selected.