Timeline for What are the usability benefits of using multiple monitors?
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| Feb 20, 2017 at 20:44 | comment | added | rcorre |
Many of these anwsers revolve around the idea of having multpile things 'visible' at once, yet I fail to see how that is true. You can only look at one monitor at a time, and turning your head seems no faster than switching to a different virtual desktop (e.g. mod+{1,2,3,...} on dwm). I'm genuinely curious about this, as I've tried multi-monitor and never felt like it helped me.
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| Aug 28, 2012 at 7:39 | vote | accept | kastark | ||
| Aug 24, 2012 at 12:10 | answer | added | prusswan | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 24, 2012 at 10:57 | answer | added | Michel Keijzers | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 24, 2012 at 10:33 | comment | added | user6409 | We have a similar question on Skeptics about productivity increases when using multiple monitors: skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/1700/… | |
| Aug 24, 2012 at 2:06 | comment | added | Kit Grose | @JørnE.Angeltveit: Interesting you mention that; with Windows 8 being so focused on hot corners and other such targets to invoke its various UI features, they've made some really terrific changes in Windows 8 to fix the issue of lost hot corners (look for the heading "improved mouse targeting on the shared edge") | |
| Aug 23, 2012 at 16:30 | answer | added | David Shantz WOW | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 23, 2012 at 15:48 | history | edited | kastark |
retagging. got rid of the generic user-interface, added the recently-created multiple-screens tag.
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| Aug 23, 2012 at 13:56 | comment | added | Zelda | There's plenty of HCI research on this topic: search google scholar for a start. Stuff like Toward characterizing the productivity benefits of very large displays Lots of work today, so I don't know if I'll be able to scrap together an answer beyond "yes, and there's evidence supporting it I'm too lazy to find" | |
| Aug 23, 2012 at 13:40 | comment | added | woliveirajr | @JørnE.Angeltveit someone asked about how to avoid that on Windows: superuser.com/questions/339157/… | |
| Aug 23, 2012 at 11:45 | comment | added | Zelda | Short term memory constraints are a big concern with 1 monitor; as I explain in this answer, keeping more things visible prevents short term memory from being a problem, and it removes the need to switch between windows (now what was that output...) | |
| Aug 23, 2012 at 9:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackUX/status/238561353449742336 | ||
| Aug 23, 2012 at 9:00 | answer | added | ChrisF | timeline score: 11 | |
| Aug 23, 2012 at 8:50 | answer | added | Mervin | timeline score: 28 | |
| Aug 23, 2012 at 8:48 | answer | added | wasyl | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 23, 2012 at 8:38 | comment | added | Jørn E. Angeltveit | One of the disadvantages are "open edges". IE, you loose a couple of the "infinite corners" you have when you have only one monitor. Eg. while working on the left monitor, it's difficult to hit the scrollbar on the right side, because the cursor doesn't stop when it reaches the right edge of the left monitor - it slides over to the right monitor instead... | |
| Aug 23, 2012 at 8:35 | answer | added | peterchen | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 23, 2012 at 8:13 | history | asked | kastark | CC BY-SA 3.0 |