ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
A “pile” metaphor for supporting casual organization of information
CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The marks are on the knowledge worker
CHI '94 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
TeamRooms: network places for collaboration
CSCW '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Elastic Windows: evaluation of multi-window operations
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems
Time-machine computing: a time-centric approach for the information environment
Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
The Task Gallery: a 3D window manager
Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Extending document management systems with user-specific active properties
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
The architecture and implementation of CPN2000, a post-WIMP graphical application
UIST '00 Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
How do people organize their desks?: Implications for the design of office information systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Support for multitasking and background awareness using interactive peripheral displays
Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Designing and deploying an information awareness interface
CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
UMEA: translating interaction histories into project contexts
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Evaluation and analysis of users' activity organization
CHI '83 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
"Constant, constant, multi-tasking craziness": managing multiple working spheres
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
One-hundred days in an activity-centric collaboration environment based on shared objects
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Scalable Fabric: flexible task management
Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
TaskTracer: a desktop environment to support multi-tasking knowledge workers
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Activity-based computing: support for mobility and collaboration in ubiquitous computing
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Share and share alike: exploring the user interface affordances of file sharing
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The project fragmentation problem in personal information management
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Keepin' it real: pushing the desktop metaphor with physics, piles and the pen
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Exploring patterns of social commonality among file directories at work
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The personal project planner: planning to organize personal information
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Keeping narratives of a desktop to enhance continuity of on-going tasks
Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
It feels better than filing: everyday work experiences in an activity-based computing system
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Lightweight tagging expands information and activity management practices
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The CLOTHO project: predicting application utility
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Piles, tabs and overlaps in navigation among documents
Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries
Architecture for a collaborative research environment based on reading list sharing
ECDL'10 Proceedings of the 14th European conference on Research and advanced technology for digital libraries
Supporting activity based computing paradigm in global software development
ASE '11 Proceedings of the 2011 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Informal information gathering techniques for active reading
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Co-activity manager: integrating activity-based collaboration into the desktop interface
Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Proceedings of the 2013 international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Activity-centric support for ad hoc knowledge work: a case study of co-activity manager
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
NooSphere: an activity-centric infrastructure for distributed interaction
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
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The venerable desktop metaphor is beginning to show signs of strain in supporting modern knowledge work. In this paper, we examine how the desktop metaphor can be re-framed, 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. We begin 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. Based on these requirements, we present the novel interface design of the Giornata system, a prototype activity-based desktop interface, and share initial findings from a longitudinal deployment of the Giornata system in a real-world setting.