Author: Umakant Mishra
Abstract:
Although a GUI is a revolutionary development over its
predecessors, it suffers from a typical shortcoming that it requires a lot of
pointer movements. As pointer movement is a slow process it affects the overall
performance of a GUI operation. Besides too much pointer movement can frustrate
a user. Hence, it is desirable to reduce the pointer movements while performing
any action through a typical GUI.
Ideally the user need not move the pointer to initiate a GUI
based operation. In other words the pointer itself should automatically move
onto the desired location on the graphical user interface (Ideal Final Result).
This article analyzes the problems involved in pointer
movements, finds out the specific GUI activities that demands more pointer
movements and suggests specific methods that can reduce pointer movements. The
methods include reducing the distance to access the remote menu items,
automating the process of resizing and relocating windows and toolboxes,
bringing the desired menu or command near to the cursor location instead of
needing the cursor to move to the menu or command location.
Keywords: Innovation, Invention, Inventive Problem
Solving, Software Patents, Software inventions, Graphical User Interface, GUI
design, User-friendliness, user configurable, GUI elements, dynamic Interface,
GUI performance,
- Mishra, Umakant, Using TRIZ for Minimizing Cursor Movements in GUI (October 12, 2008). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1283126 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1283126
- http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1283126
- http://works.bepress.com/umakant_mishra/69
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255999731_Using_TRIZ_for_Minimizing_Cursor_Movements_in_GUI
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