Beyond the desktop metaphor : designing integrated digital work environments / edited by Victor Kaptelinin and Mary Czerwinski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaptelinin, Victor.

Czerwinski, Mary P., 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-computer interaction.

User interfaces (Computer systems).

Microcomputers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 360 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2007]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Leading developers and researchers report on what the next generation of digital work environments may look like, analyzing the theory and practice of designing "out of the box" to facilitate multitasking, collaboration, and multiple technologies.

Contents:

1 Introduction: The Desktop Metaphor and New Uses of Technology / Victor Kaptelinin, Mary Czerwinski 1

I Designing Out of the Box 13

2 Beyond Lifestreams: The Inevitable Demise of the Desktop Metaphor / Eric Freeman, David Gelernter 19

3 Haystack: Per-User Information Environments Based on Semistructured Data / David R. Karger 49

4 Explorations in Task Management on the Desktop / George Robertson, Greg Smith, Brian Meyers, Patrick Baudisch, Mary Czerwinski, Eric Horvitz, Daniel Robbins, Desney Tan 101

II The Social Dimension of Personal Environments 139

5 Personal Role Management: Overview and a Design Study of Email for University Students / Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, H. Ross Baker, Nicolas B. Duarte, Aydin Haririnia, Dawn E. Klinesmith, Hannah Lee, Leonid A. Velikovich, Alfred O. Wanga, Matthew J. Westhoff 143

6 Soylent and ContactMap: Tools for Constructing the Social Workscape / Danyel Fisher, Bonnie Nardi 171

III From Tasks to Activities 191

7 Supporting Activity in Desktop and Ubiquitous Computing / Stephen Voida, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, Blair MacIntyre 195

8 From Desktop Task Management to Ubiquitous Activity-Based Computing / Jakob E. Bardram 223

IV Reflections on the Desktop Metaphor and Integration 261

9 Users' Theories of the Desktop Metaphor, or Why We Should Seek Metaphor-Free Interfaces / Pamela Ravasio, Vincent Tscherter 265

10 Toward Integrated Work Environments: Application-Centric versus Workspace-Level Design / Victor Kaptelinin, Richard Boardman 295

11 Beyond the Desktop Metaphor in Seven Dimensions / Thomas P. Moran, Shumin Zhai 335.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262256483

0262256487

9781429477147

1429477148

1282096508

9781282096509

OCLC:

144569756

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.