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Beyond the Desktop Metaphor : Designing Integrated Digital Work Environments.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The MIT Press SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (369 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262256483
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Beyond the Desktop MetaphorDDC classification:
  • 004.16
LOC classification:
  • QA76.9.H85B539 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Desktop Metaphor and New Uses of Technology -- I Designing Out of the Box -- Introduction to Part I -- 2 Beyond Lifestreams: The Inevitable Demise of the Desktop Metaphor -- 3 Haystack: Per-User Information Environments Based on Semistructured Data -- 4 Explorations in Task Management on the Desktop -- II The Social Dimension of Personal Environments -- Introduction to Part II -- 5 Personal Role Management: Overview and a Design Study of Email for University Students -- 6 Soylent and ContactMap: Tools for Constructing the Social Workscape -- III From Tasks to Activities -- Introduction to Part III -- 7 Supporting Activity in Desktop and Ubiquitous Computing -- 8 From Desktop Task Management to Ubiquitous Activity-Based Computing -- IV Reflections on the Desktop Metaphor and Integration -- Introduction to Part IV -- 9 Users' Theories of the Desktop Metaphor, or Why We Should Seek Metaphor-Free Interfaces -- 10 Toward Integrated Work Environments: Application-Centric versus Workspace-Level Design -- Conclusion -- 11 Beyond the Desktop Metaphor in Seven Dimensions -- Contributors -- Index.
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.
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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Desktop Metaphor and New Uses of Technology -- I Designing Out of the Box -- Introduction to Part I -- 2 Beyond Lifestreams: The Inevitable Demise of the Desktop Metaphor -- 3 Haystack: Per-User Information Environments Based on Semistructured Data -- 4 Explorations in Task Management on the Desktop -- II The Social Dimension of Personal Environments -- Introduction to Part II -- 5 Personal Role Management: Overview and a Design Study of Email for University Students -- 6 Soylent and ContactMap: Tools for Constructing the Social Workscape -- III From Tasks to Activities -- Introduction to Part III -- 7 Supporting Activity in Desktop and Ubiquitous Computing -- 8 From Desktop Task Management to Ubiquitous Activity-Based Computing -- IV Reflections on the Desktop Metaphor and Integration -- Introduction to Part IV -- 9 Users' Theories of the Desktop Metaphor, or Why We Should Seek Metaphor-Free Interfaces -- 10 Toward Integrated Work Environments: Application-Centric versus Workspace-Level Design -- Conclusion -- 11 Beyond the Desktop Metaphor in Seven Dimensions -- Contributors -- Index.

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.

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