Beyond the Desktop Metaphor: Designing Integrated Digital Work Environments by Victor Kaptelinin (Editor), Mary Czerwinski (Editor)

Acknowledgments     vii
Introduction: The Desktop Metaphor and New Uses of Technology   Victor Kaptelinin   Mary Czerwinski     1
Designing Out of the Box     13
Introduction to Part I     15
Beyond Lifestreams: The Inevitable Demise of the Desktop Metaphor   Eric Freeman   David Gelernter     19
Haystack: Per-User Information Environments Based on Semistructured Data   David R. Karger     49
Explorations in Task Management on the Desktop   George Robertson   Greg Smith   Brian Meyers   Patrick Baudisch   Mary Czerwinski   Eric Horvitz   Daniel Robbins   Desney Tan     101
The Social Dimension of Personal Environments     139
Introduction to Part II     141
Personal Role Management: Overview and a Design Study of Email for University Students   Catherine Plaisant   Ben Shneiderman   H. Ross Baker   Nicolas B. Duarte   Aydin Haririnia   Dawn E. Klinesmith   Hannah Lee   Leonid A. Velikovich   Alfred O. Wanga   Matthew J. Westhoff     143
Soylent and ContactMap: Tools for Constructing the Social Workscape   Danyel Fisher   Bonnie Nardi     171
From Tasks to Activities     191
Introduction to Part III     193
Supporting Activity in Desktop and Ubiquitous Computing   Stephen Voida   Elizabeth D. Mynatt   Blair MacIntyre     195
From Desktop Task Management to Ubiquitous Activity-Based Computing   Jakob E. Bardram     223
Reflections on the Desktop Metaphor and Integration     261
Introduction to Part IV     263
Users' Theories of the Desktop Metaphor, or Why We Should Seek Metaphor-Free Interfaces   Pamela Ravasio   Vincent Tscherter     265
Toward Integrated Work Environments: Application-Centric versus Workspace-Level Design   Victor Kaptelinin   Richard Boardman     295
Conclusion     333
Beyond the Desktop Metaphor in Seven Dimensions   Thomas P. Moran   Shumin Zhai     335
Contributors     355
Index     357