Workspaces

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Workspaces

• cs5984 Information Visualization
• Chris North

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Workspaces

• Tie it all together into work environment
• Visualizations integrate with other tasks
• Visualization of tasks
• Task management
• Personal information management (PIM)
• Problems with standard Windows approach
• Documents, applications, windows, icons in
  folders, icons on desktop, icons on start bar,?
• Task switching difficult (multiple windows /
  task)
• Too much time spent moving/resizing/rearranging
  windows
• Desktop overloaded, doesnt scale up
• No relationships between windows?

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Role Manager

• Organize by Roles
• Shneiderman et al

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Elastic Windows

• Merge file system and window system
• Hierarchical tiled windows
• Elastic resizing (fisheye)
• Kandogan

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Elastic Windows
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Information Forager

• Virtual office physical office
• Card et al.

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Win3D

• Quake for personalinformation management
• Clockwise3d.com
• Demo?

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Genex

• Task-based history keeping and transfer
• Linking views (Snap)
• Data centricity (Visage)
• Elastic tiled windows (EW)
• Visual Macros
• Shneiderman et al
• Demo

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Today

• Gelernter, LifeStreams, web
• fanye, luhui
• Robertson, Task Gallery, web
• priya, dilshad

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Assignment

• Read for Tues Construction
• Hibino, LiveDocs/InfoStill, web
• gowri, joy
• Haeberli, Conman/DataFlow, web
• ajay, denzil
• Read for Thurs Debates
• Hornbaek, Fisheye vs. OverviewDetail, web
• Luhui, Shumei
• Leung, Bifocal vs. OverviewDetail, web

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Future

• Project presentations in 2 weeks
• Last 2 days of class, 2 hours/class
• presentation 10 min talk, 10 min open
  discussion
• Final project paper may 7
• Pick slots on tuesday
• Topics of interest? tues