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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 researchers and developers consider design approaches for a post-desktop future.
The contributors analyze the limitations of the desktop environment--including the built-in conflict between access and display, the difficulties in managing several tasks simultaneously, and the need to coordinate the multiple technologies and information objects (laptops, PDAs, files, URLs, email) that most people use daily--and propose novel design solutions that work toward a more integrated digital work environment. They describe systems that facilitate access to information, including Lifestreams, Haystack, Task Gallery, GroupBar, and Scalable Fabric, and they argue that the organization of work environments should reflect the social context of work. They consider the notion of activity as a conceptual tool for designing integrated systems, and point to the Kimura and Activity-Based Computing systems as examples.
Beyond the Desktop Metaphor is the first systematic overview of state-of-the-art research on integrated digital work environments. It provides a glimpse of what the next generation of information technologies for everyday use may look like--and it should inspire design solutions for users' real-world needs.
Victor Kaptelinin is Professor in the Department of Informatics at Umeå University, Sweden.
Mary Czerwinski is a Principal Researcher and Manager in the Visualization and Interaction Research Group at Microsoft Research and adjunct faculty member in Psychology at the University of Washington.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii
1 Introduction: The Desktop Metaphor and New Uses of Technology
Victor Kaptelinin and Mary Czerwinski 1
I Designing Out of the Box 13
Introduction to Part I 15
2 Beyond Lifestreams
The Inevitable Demise of the Desktop Metaphor
Eric Freeman and David Gelernter 19
3 Haystack
Per-User Information Environments Based on Semistructured Data
David R. Karger 49
4 Explorations in Task Management on the Desktop
George Robertson, Greg Smith, Brian Meyers, Patrick Baudisch, Mary Czerwinski, Eric Horvitz, Daniel Robbins and Desney Tan 101
II The Social Dimension of Personal Environments 139
Introduction to Part II 141
5 Personal Role Management
Overview and a Design Study of Email for University Students
Catherine Plaisant and Ben Shneiderman; Assisted by H. Ross Baker, Nicolas B. Duarte, Aydin Haririnia, Dawn E. Klinesmith, Leonid A. Velikovich, Alfred O. Wanga and Matthew J. Westhoff 143
6 Soylent and ContactMap
Tools for Constructing the Social Workscape
Danyel Fisher and Bonnie A. Nardi 171
III From Tasks to Activities 191
Introduction to Part III 193
7 Supporting Activity in Desktop and Ubiquitous Computing
Stephen Voida, Elizabeth Mynatt and Blair MacIntyre 195
8 From Desktop Task Management to Ubiquitous Activity-Based to Computing
Jakob E. Bardram 223
IV Reflections on the Desktop Metaphor and Integration 261
Introduction to Part IV 263
9 Users’ Theories of the Desktop Metaphor, or Why We Should Seek Metaphor-Free Interfaces
Vincent Tscherter and Pamela Ravasio 265
10 Toward Integrated Work Environments
Application-Centric versus Workspace-Level Design
Victor Kaptelinin and Richard Boardman 295
Conclusion 333
11 Beyond the Desktop Metaphor in Seven Dimensions
Thomas P. Moran and Shumin Zhai 335
Contributors 355
Index 357
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電腦的隱喻桌面，擁有屏幕上的視窗和文件夾層次結構，是大多數使用者和設計師所熟悉的唯一數字工作環境。然而，實證研究顯示，傳統的桌面設計並不能提供足夠的支持，以應對當今涉及協作、多任務、多角色和多樣化技術的實際任務。在《超越桌面隱喻》一書中，領先的研究人員和開發人員考慮了後桌面時代的設計方法。
貢獻者們分析了桌面環境的限制，包括訪問和顯示之間的內建衝突、同時管理多個任務的困難，以及需要協調大多數人每天使用的多種技術和信息對象（筆記本電腦、個人數字助理、文件、網址、電子郵件）的需求，並提出了能夠實現更加整合的數字工作環境的新穎設計解決方案。他們描述了促進信息訪問的系統，包括Lifestreams、Haystack、Task Gallery、GroupBar和Scalable Fabric，並主張工作環境的組織應反映工作的社會背景。他們考慮了活動作為設計整合系統的概念工具，並指出Kimura和基於活動的計算系統作為例子。
《超越桌面隱喻》是對集成數字工作環境最新研究的首次系統概述。它提供了對未來每天使用的信息技術可能的樣貌的一瞥，並應該激發對用戶真實需求的設計解決方案的靈感。
維克多·卡普特林是瑞典烏美奧大學信息學系的教授。
瑪麗·切爾文斯基是微軟研究的可視化和交互研究小組的首席研究員和經理，並在華盛頓大學擔任心理學兼職教師。
目錄
致謝
1 引言：桌面隱喻和技術的新用途
維克多·卡普特林和瑪麗·切爾文斯基
I 超越傳統設計
引言：第一部分介紹
2 超越Lifestreams：桌面隱喻的不可避免消亡
埃里克·弗里曼和大衛·蓋勒特
3 Haystack：基於半結構化數據的每個用戶信息環境
大衛·R·卡格
4 在桌面上進行任務管理的探索
喬治·羅伯森、格雷格·史密斯、布萊恩·邁爾斯、帕特里克·鮑迪什、瑪麗·切爾文斯基、埃里克·霍維茨、丹尼爾·羅賓斯和德斯尼·坦
II 個人環境的社會維度
引言：第二部分介紹
5 個人角色管理：大學生郵件概述和設計研究
凱瑟琳·普萊桑特和本·施奈德曼；輔助作者：H·羅斯·貝克、尼古拉斯·B·杜阿特、艾丁·哈里里尼亞、黎昂尼德·A·韋利科維奇、阿爾夫
