Support for activity-based computing in a personal computing operating system Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:942670, abstract = {Research has shown that computers are notoriously bad at supporting the management of parallel activities and interruptions, and that mobility increases the severity of these problems. This paper presents activity-based computing (ABC) which supplements the prevalent data- and application-oriented computing paradigm with technologies for handling multiple, parallel and mobile work activities. We present the design and implementation of ABC support embedded in the Windows XP operating system. This includes replacing the Windows Taskbar with an Activity Bar, support for handling Windows applications, a zoomable user interface, and support for moving activities across different computers. We report an evaluation of this Windows XP ABC system which is based on a multi-method approach, where perceived ease-of-use and usefulness was evaluated together with rich interview material. This evaluation showed that users found the ABC XP extension easy to use and likely to be useful in their own work.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Bardram, Jakob and Bunde-Pedersen, Jonathan and Soegaard, Mads}, booktitle = {CHI '06: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {942670}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1124805}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1124772.1124805}, doi = {10.1145/1124772.1124805}, isbn = {1595933727}, keywords = {activity-oriented, taskbar}, pages = {211--220}, posted-at = {2006-11-14 08:48:03}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM Press}, title = {Support for activity-based computing in a personal computing operating system}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1124772.1124805}, year = {2006} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:942670 L3 - citeulike-article-id:942670 N2 - Research has shown that computers are notoriously bad at supporting the management of parallel activities and interruptions, and that mobility increases the severity of these problems. This paper presents activity-based computing (ABC) which supplements the prevalent data- and application-oriented computing paradigm with technologies for handling multiple, parallel and mobile work activities. We present the design and implementation of ABC support embedded in the Windows XP operating system. This includes replacing the Windows Taskbar with an Activity Bar, support for handling Windows applications, a zoomable user interface, and support for moving activities across different computers. We report an evaluation of this Windows XP ABC system which is based on a multi-method approach, where perceived ease-of-use and usefulness was evaluated together with rich interview material. This evaluation showed that users found the ABC XP extension easy to use and likely to be useful in their own work. SN - 1595933727 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 220 TI - Support for activity-based computing in a personal computing operating system PB - ACM Press T2 - CHI '06: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems SP - 211 KW - activity-oriented KW - taskbar AU - Bardram, Jakob AU - Bunde-Pedersen, Jonathan AU - Soegaard, Mads PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1124772.1124805 ER -