The objective of this book is to present and discuss new approaches to designing next-generation digital work environments. Currently the most pervasive computer systems, such as Microsoft Windows and Mac OS, are based on the desktop metaphor. For many users and designers, these are the only digital work environments they have ever known. It is all too easy to assume that the desktop metaphor will always determine our experience of computer systems. The present book challenges this assumption.
Future systems may further develop, modify, or even abandon the metaphor. The book is an attempt to systematically explore a range of issues related to the design of inter active environments of the future, with a special focus on new design solutions, concepts, and approaches that could be employed in “postdesktop” systems.
The intention of this book is to discern the analysis and design of integrated digital work environments as a distinct area of HCI research and to support the consolidation of this emerging field. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art of the most relevant research and makes an attempt to facilitate the coordination of this research.
TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - Introduction
Chapter 02 - Beyond Lifestreams
Chapter 03 - Haystack
Chapter 04 - Explorations in Task Management on the Desktop
Chapter 05 - Personal Role Management
Chapter 06 - Soylent and ContactMap
Chapter 07 - Supporting Activity in Desktop and Ubiquitous Computing
Chapter 08 - From Desktop Task Management to Ubiquitous Activity-Based Computing
Chapter 09 - Users’ Theories of the Desktop Metaphor
Chapter 10 - Toward Integrated Work Environments
Chapter 11 - Beyond the Desktop Metaphor in Seven Dimensions
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