A2DL-an Adaptive Automatic Display Layout system

With advances in computer technology, complex applications are being developed which involve multi-window operations. With the increasing number of windows on the desktop, effective viewing of all the necessary information for a task becomes difficult. A significant portion of the user´s time is spent in opening/closing or moving/resizing the windows. Since these window interface housekeeping activities are not directly related to the user´s task domain, time spent on window management causes an increase in the actual task completion time, resulting in reduced user throughput. We propose the A ²DL (Adaptive Automatic Display Layout) system, which performs window management functions to free the user´s cognitive and temporal resources to work on task domain activities rather than managing the multi-window desktop. Our system aims to automate and adapt the layout of the windows according to the current user and his current task domain, thereby enhancing the overall human-computer system performance