cs5984: Information Visualization Chris North Workspaces cs5984: Information Visualization Chris North

Workspaces Tie it all together into work environment Task management 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?

Role Manager Organize by Roles Shneiderman et al

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

Elastic Windows

Information Forager Virtual office = physical office Card et al.

Win3D Quake for personal information management Clockwise3d.com Demo?

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

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

Assignment Read for Tues: Construction Read for Thurs: Debates 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

Future Project presentations in 2 weeks Topics of interest? tues 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