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Re-Framing the Desktop Interface Around the Activities of Knowledge Work

Category: Data Management, Desktops, Laptops and OS

Overview The venerable desktop metaphor is beginning to show signs of strain in supporting modern knowledge work. This paper examines how the desktop metaphor can be reframed, shifting the focus away from a low-level (and increasingly obsolete) focus on documents and applications to an interface based upon the creation of and interaction with manually declared, semantically meaningful activities. The paper begins by unpacking some of the foundational assumptions of desktop interface design, describe an activity-based model for organizing the desktop interface based on theories of cognition and observations of real-world practice, and identify a series of high-level system requirements for interfaces that use activity as their primary organizing principle.

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Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Feb 10, 2009
Format: White Papers
Topics: Desktop Systems - PCs, Knowledge and Data Management

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