Drag-and-Pop: Accelerating Drag-and-Drop on Large Screens

Drag-and-pop is an interaction technique designed to accelerate drag-and-drop on large screens. By animating potential targets and bringing them to the dragged object, drag-and-pop reduces the user effort required for dragging an object across the screen to a desired target. To preserve users’ spatial memory, targets are not moved away from their original location, but are instead stretched using a rubber band-like visualization. This paper presents the rationale, algorithm, and visualization techniques of drag-and-pop with the example of Windows desktop icons.