Beyond the desktop metaphor : designing integrated digital work environments / / edited by Victor Kaptelinin and Mary Czerwinski

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777768603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007
• ISBN: 0-262-29176-2; 1-282-09650-8; 9786612096501; 0-262-25648-7; 1-4294-7714-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): KaptelininVictor; CzerwinskiMary P. <1960->
• Disciplina: 004.16
• Soggetti: Human-computer interaction; User interfaces (Computer systems); Microcomputers
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 III7 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.