During my PhD, I have come across a number of papers that I think someone should read in order to better understand the concept of subjunctive interfaces. I believe the concept is ripe for application in today's software and will have big part to play in the next generations of creativity software.
A subjunctive interface is defined as follows:
Subjunctive interfaces support the setting up, viewing and adjustment of multiple scenarios in parallel, leading to more efficient iteration through related scenarios, and the opportunity for side-by-side instead of temporally separated viewing.
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Aran created the concept of a subjunctive interface. He defines the concept in his 1998 and 1999 papers.
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Lunzer, A. Towards the subjunctive interface: General support for parameter exploration by overlaying alternative application states. In Late Breaking Hot Topics Proceedings of IEEE Visualization (Oct. 1998), pp. 45–48.
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Lunzer, A. Choice and comparison where the user wants them: Subjunctive interfaces for computer- supported exploration, 1999.
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Lunzer, A. Benefits of subjunctive interface support for exploratory access to online resources. In Intuitive Human Interfaces for Organizing and Accessing Intellectual Assets, G. Grieser and Y. Tanaka, Eds., vol. 3359 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2005, pp. 14–32.
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Lunzer, A. Lightweight provenance-driven exploration. Tech. Rep. M-2014-003, Viewpoints Research Institute, 2014.
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Lunzer, A., Belleman, R., Melis, P., and Stamatakos, G. Preparing, exploring and comparing cancer simulation results within a large parameter space. In Information Visualisation (IV), 2010 14th International Conference (July 2010), pp. 258–264.
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Lunzer, A., and Fujima, J. Building and exploring with the recipesheet. In Seventh International Conference on Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing, 2009. C5 ’09. (Jan. 2009), pp. 41 –47.
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Lunzer, A., and Hornbæk, K. An enhanced spreadsheet supporting calculation-structure vari- ants, and its application to web-based processing. In Federation over the Web, K. Jantke, A. Lunzer, N. Spyratos, and Y. Tanaka, Eds., vol. 3847 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006, pp. 143–158.
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Lunzer, A., and Hornbaek, K. Subjunctive interfaces: Extending applications to support parallel setup, viewing and control of alternative scenarios. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 14, 4 (Jan. 2008), 17:1–17:44.
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Lunzer, A., and McNamara, A. It ain’t necessarily so: Checking charts for robustness. Tech. Rep. M-2014-002, Viewpoints Research Institute, 2014.
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Lunzer, A., and Ohshima, Y. What else and where else: Two worthwhile questions for an information interface. In Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design (New York, NY, USA, 2012), NordiCHI ’12, ACM, pp. 815–816.
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Terry, M. Set-Based User Interaction. PhD thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005.
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Terry, M., and Mynatt, E. D. Recognizing creative needs in user interface design. In Proceedings of the 4th conference on Creativity & cognition (New York, NY, USA, 2002), C&C ’02, ACM, pp. 38–44.
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Terry, M., and Mynatt, E. D. Side views: persistent, on-demand previews for open-ended tasks. In Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (New York, NY, USA, 2002), UIST ’02, ACM, pp. 71–80.
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Terry, M., and Mynatt, E. D. Enhancing general-purpose tools with multi-state previewing capa- bilities. Knowledge-Based Systems 18, 8 (2005), 415 – 425.
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Terry, M., Mynatt, E. D., Nakakoji, K., and Yamamoto, Y. Variation in element and action: supporting simultaneous development of alternative solutions. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (New York, NY, USA, 2004), CHI ’04, ACM, pp. 711–718.
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Aish, R., and Woodbury, R. Multi-level interaction in parametric design. In Smart Graphics, A. Butz, B. Fisher, A. Krüger, and P. Olivier, Eds., vol. 3638 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005, pp. 151–162.
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Woodbury, R. Elements of Parametric Design. Taylor and Francis, 2010.
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Woodbury, R., Kolarić, S., Erhan, H., and Guenther, J. Unconventional Computing. Riverside Architectural Press, 2013, ch. Exploring for Designs: Five Basic Elements, pp. 210–215.
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Woodbury, R. F., and Burrow, A. L. Whither design space? AIE EDAM: Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis, and Manufacturing 20 (5 2006), 63–82.