1 / 9

The “Lifestream” Approach to Reorganizing the Information World

The “Lifestream” Approach to Reorganizing the Information World. By Nicholas Carriero, Scott Feritag, Eric Freeman and David Gelernter. What is Lifestreams. Uses a simple organizational metaphor, a time-ordered stream of documents, to replace conventional files and directories

hilaire
Download Presentation

The “Lifestream” Approach to Reorganizing the Information World

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The “Lifestream” Approach to Reorganizing the Information World By Nicholas Carriero, Scott Feritag, Eric Freeman and David Gelernter

  2. What is Lifestreams • Uses a simple organizational metaphor, a time-ordered stream of documents, to replace conventional files and directories • Subsumes many separate desktop applications to accomplish the most common communication, scheduling, search and retrieval tasks

  3. Lifestreams Interface

  4. Why is Lifestreams • Users of common desktop systems have difficulty in • Organizing and finding information within hierarchical file systems • Making use of archived information • Getting a “big picture” view • Managing schedules and reminders • Lifestreams organizes the electronic documents in a fluid and natural way

  5. How Lifestreams works • Five primary operations • New creates a empty document • Clone duplicates an existing document • Transfer copies a document from your stream to someone else’s • Find prompts the user for a search query and creates a substream • Summary allows users to distill the information in a large number of similar documents into a single overview

  6. How Lifestreams works (cont.) • Past, present and future • Dialing the clock into the past allows users to explore past regions of the stream • Dialing the clock into the future allows users to create a reminder notice • Agents • Used to extend the functionality of Lifestreams

  7. Lifestreams Goals • “Names” and “directories” should be junked as organizing devices for infochunks • The system should provide logic for finding a chunk or group of chunks • The system should provide logic for summarizing or compressing a large group of related chunks • “Compatibility” should be automatic • Explicit file-storage management should be junked.

  8. Current Status • Servers run on Unix workstation • The chunks in a Lifestream are represented using a machine-independent external data representation (XDR) • X-Window Motif user interface

  9. Conclusion • HCI Metrics • User Performance • Error Rate • User satisfaction • Learning time • Retention • Supports the management of electronic objects efficiently and transparently • Organizes the electronic objects in the way that reflects the way users work

More Related