managing collections of components

[Clayton H Lewis]

work that may be helpful on the "iframe" problem, or the problem of  
managing collections of ui components:
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/kgajos/

gajos uses a cost function to configure a collection of UI elements  
dynamically on the screen
the cost function can reflect individual user needs/preferences, such  
as that mouse targets have to be at least a certain size, as well as  
cost of scrolling
the approach copes well with mapping a ui onto different screen sizes

I don't know specifically if his approach is smart enough to avoid  
generating nested scroll bars, but I think it could be


Clayton Lewis
Professor of Computer Science
Scientist in Residence, Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities
University of Colorado
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~clayton



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