Translucent Patches
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The translucent patches are windows that can be created from certain content using gestures. For example, the user can double-tap on a paragraph of text to create a separate patch that can then be moved somewhere else.
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Translucent patches—dissolving windows. In Proceedings of the 7th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, pages 121-130, 1994.
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The user is creating a patch from a list of items.
The user can remove an item from the list in the separated patch.
The user can interact in many different ways with the patches using gestures.
Highlights:
A great amount of control over a window's content. The content is not static anymore and can be shared between windows (patches).
Limitations:
The gestures need for different patches operations can be tricky to memorise, be consistent and achieve the right level of fluidity when it comes to the interaction.