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From: mullins@pitt.UUCP (Paul M. Mullins)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: What are menus?
Summary: Citations for "rooms" and "multiple virtual workspaces"
Keywords: menu metaphors, ROOMS, multiple virtual workspaces
Message-ID: <4470@pitt.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 89 18:31:30 GMT
References: <3234@sugar.uu.net> <12907@steinmetz.ge.com> <10867@s.ms.uky.edu> <1989Jan18.125219.19180@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Pittsburgh
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> 
> Actually, this has been done by XEROX.  It's called ROOMS, I think.
> I've never actually seen it, but the guy who wrote it (I forget his name) was
> up here, at the U of Toronto to give a talk on it.  He showed some 35mm slides
> and it looks pretty cool.
> 
> --Raj

%A S.K. Card
%A D.A. Henderson
%T A Multiple Virtual-Workspace Interface to Support User Task
Switching
%B CHI'87 Conf on Human Factors in Com Syst, Toronto
%I ACM/SIGCHI
%D Apr 6-9, 1987

%A D.A. Henderson
%A S.K. Card
%T Rooms: The Use of Multiple Virtual Workspaces to Reduce Space
Contention in a Window-Based Graphical User Interface
%J ACM TOG
%V 5
%N 3
%D July, 1986
%P 211-243