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The previewable switch: a light switch with feedforward

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Richard Chulwoo Park,

Hyunjae Lee,

Hwan Kim,

Woohun LeeAuthors Info & Claims

DIS '14: Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems

Pages 191 - 194

https://doi.org/10.1145/2598510.2600885

Published: 21 June 2014 Publication History

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A light switch and its spatial mapping constitute an unsolved, user interface problem introduced to the realm of Human Computer Interaction by Norman. In this paper, we introduce the Previewable Switch which is a light switch enhanced with a touch sensor with an ability to provide a user a glimpse of which lights will turn on/off prior to compressing the switch. Such concept of communicating a result prior to taking an action is known as feedforward [6]. Feedforward is an important element to be considered in the user interface design as it provides clear and instant affordance of what will occur before the next action. We present the findings from the study in regard to behavior and spatial mapping. We will discuss the effect of feedforward as a design element in a user interface.

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DIS '14: Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems

June 2014

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DOI:10.1145/2598510

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Zhou QWang KLi PZeng DGuo SYe BGuo M(2019)Fast Coflow Scheduling via Traffic Compression and Stage Pipelining in Datacenter NetworksIEEE Transactions on Computers10.1109/TC.2019.293171668:12(1755-1771)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2019
https://doi.org/10.1109/TC.2019.2931716
Zhou QLi PWang KZeng DGuo SGuo M(2018)Swallow: Joint Online Scheduling and Coflow Compression in Datacenter Networks2018 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)10.1109/IPDPS.2018.00060(505-514)Online publication date: May-2018
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