Information Spaces, Referat im Seminar "Next Generation Interfaces" ; Ralf Bähren, Mai 2003
The Task Gallery (1999)
Microsoft Research Center;
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ABSTRACT: Die Task Gallery ist nach ihrem erfolgreichen Vorgängerprojekt "Data Mountain" das am weitesten fortgeschrittene Forschungsprojekt, das auf eine 3D Umgebung bei der Informations- und Aufgabenverwaltung setzt. Ähnlich wie beim › Information Visualizer Projekt wird auch hier auf Forschungsergebnissen aufgebaut, die einer räumlichen Informations-Strukturierung den Vorzug geben.
Der voll funktionsfähige Prototyp intergriert sich in bestehende Windows-Plattformen und kann als Alternative zur normalen Arbeitsumgebung verwendet werden.
AUSZUG aus der Webseite:
The TaskGallery is a running 3D research prototype user interface
that expands the desktop into an entire office with an unlimited number
of desktops. The screen becomes a long gallery with paintings on the walls
that represent different tasks, and the user moves quickly and easily
from one to another with a simple series of mouse and keyboard commands.
We tried to make the illusion appeal to the lessons in navigating physical
space that we learned as children, so that people would “get”
the system intuitively without having to learn or adjust to it. The less
people have to think about how to work their computer, the more mental
energy they have left for their real work.
Unique features and innovations:
- Any normal, unmodified windows application runs inside of a 3D environment.
- Users can customize the layout of tasks and persist these layouts.
- Files, documents, and applications are typically represented as snapshots
(rather than icons) to aid in retrieval.
- The individualized layouts of tasks and documents within tasks take
advantage of users' spatial memory.
- High-level control for common navigation prevents users from getting
lost in the 3D environment.
- The standard windows manipulation controls are augmented with additional
controls that provide high-level control for common window configurations:
loosely stacked files, put files in an ordered stack, maximize one document,
and compare several documents.
Externe Links:
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DATA Mountain (PDF)
Vorgänger-Projekt zur 3D-Organisation von Webseiten