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Title Beyond the desktop metaphor : designing integrated digital work environments / edited by Victor Kaptelinin and Mary Czerwinski
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 360 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction : The Desktop Metaphor and New Uses of Technology / Victor Kaptelinin and Mary Czerwinski -- Part I. Designing Out of the Box -- Beyond Lifestreams : The Inevitable Demise of the Desktop Metaphor / Eric Freeinan and David Gelernter -- Haystack : Per-User Information Environments Based on Semistructured Data / David R. Karger -- Explorations in Task Management on the Desktop / George Robertson [and others] -- Part II. The Social Dimension of Personal Environments -- Personal Role Management : Overview and a Design Study of Email for University Students / Catherine Plaisant [and others] -- Soylent and ContactMap : tools for Constructing the Social Workscape / Danyel Fisher and Bonnie Nardi -- Part III. From Tasks to Activities -- Supporting Activity in Desktop and Ubiquitous Computing / Stephen Voida, Elizabeth D. Mynatt, and Blair Maclntyre -- From Desktop Task Management to Ubiquitous Activity-Based Computing / Jakob E. Bardram -- Part IV. Reflections on the Desktop Metaphor and Integration -- Users' Theories of the Desktop Metaphor, or Why We Should Set Metaphor-Free Interfaces / Pamela Ravasio and Vincent Tscherter -- Toward Integrated Work Environments : Application-Centric Versus Workspace-Level Design / Victor Kaptelinin and Richard Boardman -- Beyond the Desktop Metaphor in Seven Dimensions / Thomas P. Moran and Shumin Zhai
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
Analysis COMPUTER SCIENCE/Human Computer Interaction
DESIGN/Interactive Design
BUSINESS/Business Technology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Human-computer interaction.
User interfaces (Computer systems)
Microcomputers.
User-Computer Interface
Microcomputers
Attitude to Computers
microcomputers.
COMPUTERS -- Hardware -- Personal Computers -- General.
COMPUTERS -- Hardware -- Handheld Devices.
COMPUTERS -- Microprocessors.
Human-computer interaction
Microcomputers
User interfaces (Computer systems)
Benutzeroberfläche
Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation
Form Electronic book
Author Kaptelinin, Victor.
Czerwinski, Mary P., 1960-
ISBN 9780262256483
0262256487
9781429477147
1429477148
1282096508
9781282096509