infocanvas: a highly personalized elegant awareness displayproject iis-0118685. 2 personal...
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InfoCanvasInfoCanvas: A Highly Personalized : A Highly Personalized Elegant Awareness DisplayElegant Awareness Display
Todd Miller, John StaskoTodd Miller, John Stasko
Information Interfaces GroupInformation Interfaces GroupCollege of Computing/GVU CenterCollege of Computing/GVU CenterGeorgia TechGeorgia Tech
Supported by NSFProject IIS-0118685
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Personal InformationPersonal Information
•• Examples: news, financial, weather, Examples: news, financial, weather, traffic, personal communication, …traffic, personal communication, …
•• Desire to maintain a level of awarenessDesire to maintain a level of awareness
•• Information varies from person to personInformation varies from person to person
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Our Goals & Design PrinciplesOur Goals & Design Principles
•• Peripheral Peripheral –– Calm and not disruptiveCalm and not disruptive
•• Personalized Personalized –– Highly customizableHighly customizable
•• Consolidated Consolidated –– Integrated view of all Integrated view of all desired datadesired data
•• Secure Secure –– Obscure personal dataObscure personal data
•• Elegant Elegant –– Enhance a person’s Enhance a person’s environmentenvironment
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The InfoCanvasThe InfoCanvas
•• “Information Art”“Information Art”
•• An ambient LCD displayAn ambient LCD display–– Like picture on desk or hung on wallLike picture on desk or hung on wall
•• Presents an eyePresents an eye--pleasing picturepleasing picture
•• Elements of picture represent data and subtly Elements of picture represent data and subtly changechange
•• Allow the user to define both the information Allow the user to define both the information and its representationand its representation
Shannon Bauman, Julie Isaacs,Jehan Moghazy, Chris Plaue, Zach Pousman
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InfoCanvas
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Time of day9 am 6 pm
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Parents’ weather
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Parents’ temp
0 degrees
50 degrees
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Dow Avg.
-200 +200
13Traffic
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Email from Christy
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San Diegoairfare
$400
$150
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www.golfonline.com
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Current SystemCurrent System
•• Do canvas design informallyDo canvas design informally
•• HandHand--implement mappingsimplement mappings
•• FullFull--featured runfeatured run--time systemtime system
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Canvas ThemesCanvas Themes
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User StudyUser Study
•• Purchased second monitors and video Purchased second monitors and video cardscards
•• Working with three initial participantsWorking with three initial participants
•• They chooseThey choose–– Data to monitorData to monitor
–– Canvas themeCanvas theme
–– Data representations and positionsData representations and positions
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Temperature
“Evolution” onNY Times Sci page
Tomorrow’sweather
Today’sweather
Mexicofare <$300
Cokestock
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Email volume
Email from husband
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Temperature
Weather
Stocks Emailfrom list
Email total
Traffic
News headline
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Today’sforecast
Mutual fundprice
Time
Tomorrow’sforecast
News headline
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Ongoing EffortsOngoing Efforts
•• ““GlanceabilityGlanceability” study” study–– In ~7 seconds, do I get more info fromIn ~7 seconds, do I get more info from
InfoCanvasInfoCanvas
MyYahooMyYahoo
Pure textPure text
SideshowSideshow
•• Design toolDesign tool
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