Consider a large-format display before the user, bearing a multiplicity of “windows,” like little movies, the majority dynamic and in color. There are upwards of 20 windows, say, more than a person can ordinarily absorb at once. Some of the windows come and go, reflecting their nature as direct TV linkages into real-time, real-world events. Others are non-real-time, some dynamic, others static but capable of jumping into motion.
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Richard A. Bolt (1981) studied this question.
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