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From: obryan@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Mark O'Bryan)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Rooms paradigm that Xerox introduced
Message-ID: <1990Mar18.083618.2567@gumby.cc.wmich.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 90 08:36:18 GMT
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In article <33104@brunix.UUCP> dkb@cs.brown.edu (Dilip Barman) writes:
> 
>      I remember reading an article at least a year ago on this
> subject.  However, I don't remember where.  Does anybody have a 
> reference?  Rooms, by the way, is this clever paradigm that models
> many different rooms, each with messy desks.  So one can choose

Hmm.  The reference I have is a lot more than a year old, but perhaps
it's still what you're looking for.  I believe this is their first
paper published on the topic.  They probably followed up with other
articles in additional publications.

   Henderson, D.A., Jr. and Card, S.K.  "Rooms: The Use of Multiple
   Virtual Workspaces to Reduce Space Contention in a Window-Based
   Graphical User Interface"  in ACM Transactions on Graphics,
   Vol. 5, No. 3, July 1986, pages 211-243.

I think I also saw something in one of the CHI conference proceedings
around '87 or '88, but I don't have the reference handy.  Perhaps that's
the one you're looking for.

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Mark T. O'Bryan                 Internet:  obryan@gumby.cc.wmich.edu
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI  49008