Windowing systems seem to provide promising alternatives to display massive information for multi-tasking and real-time control systems. However, the benefits of windowing systems might be offset by the workload resulting from window management. The purpose of this study was to compare the relative advantages of tiled window, overlapping window, and twin monitors for high-demand and low-demand information-processing shop-floor control tasks. It was found that tiled windowing system was superior to the other two for high-demand tasks while twin monitors was the best for low-demand tasks.
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