The Hotkey Palette: Flexible Contextual Retrieval of Chosen Documents and Windows

Jonathan Aceituno (1) , Nicolas Roussel (1)

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We present the Hotkey Palette, a quasi-modal interface enabling quick retrieval of chosen documents and windows by defining and triggering keyboard shortcuts either on the physical keyboard or with an on-screen keyboard. The Hotkey Palette improves on previous work by providing flexible contextualization of shortcuts that leverages document hierarchies, and by merging document and window retrieval in a single interface. The paper describes the design and implementation of the interface and presents novel use cases for document and window management.

Keywords: interface customization; document retrieval; window management; on-screen keyboard

Domains: Human-Computer Interaction [cs.HC]; Digital Libraries [cs.DL]

Jonathan Aceituno, Nicolas Roussel. The Hotkey Palette: Flexible Contextual Retrieval of Chosen Documents and Windows. IHM'14, 26e conférence francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine, Oct 2014, Lille, France. pp.55-59, ⟨10.1145/2670444.2670452⟩. ⟨hal-01089631v2⟩