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Workspaces

Workspaces. cs5984: Information Visualization Chris North. 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

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Workspaces

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  1. Workspaces cs5984: Information Visualization Chris North

  2. 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, doesn’t scale up • No relationships between windows?

  3. Role Manager • Organize by Roles • Shneiderman et al

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

  5. Elastic Windows

  6. Information Forager • Virtual office = physical office • Card et al.

  7. Win3D • Quake for personalinformation management • Clockwise3d.com • Demo?

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

  9. Today • Gelernter, “LifeStreams”, web • fanye, luhui • Robertson, “Task Gallery”, web • priya, dilshad

  10. Assignment • Read for Tues: Construction • Hibino, “LiveDocs/InfoStill”, web • gowri, joy • Haeberli, “Conman/DataFlow”, web • ajay, denzil • Read for Thurs: Debates • Hornbaek, “Fisheye vs. Overview+Detail”, web • Luhui, Shumei • Leung, “Bifocal vs. Overview+Detail”, web

  11. 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

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