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Beyond the desktop metaphor : designing integrated digital work environments
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Beyond the desktop metaphor : designing integrated digital work environments

Author: Victor Kaptelinin; Mary P Czerwinski
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
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The computer's metaphorical desktop, with its onscreen windows and hierarchy of folders, is the only digital work environment most users and designers have ever known. Yet empirical studies show that the traditional desktop design does not provide sufficient support for today's real-life tasks involving collaboration, multitasking, multiple roles, and diverse technologies. In Beyond the Desktop Metaphor, leading  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Beyond the desktop metaphor.
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007
(OCoLC)607174887
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Victor Kaptelinin; Mary P Czerwinski
ISBN: 026211304X 9780262113045
OCLC Number: 70921582
Description: vi, 360 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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 ... [et al.] --
Part II. The Social Dimension of Personal Environments --
Personal Role Management : Overview and a Design Study of Email for University Students / Catherine Plaisant ... [et al.] --
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.
Responsibility: edited by Victor Kaptelinin and Mary Czerwinski.
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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  Read more...

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