SpiraClock: a continuous and non-intrusive display for upcoming events

  • Authors:
  • Pierre Dragicevic;Stéphane Huot

  • Affiliations:
  • École des Mines de Nantes, Nantes, France;École des Mines de Nantes, Nantes, France

  • Venue:
  • CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this paper, we present SpiraClock, a new visualization technique for nearby events. SpiraClock fills a gap between static calendar displays and pop-up reminders by giving the user a continuous and non-intrusive feedback on nearby events. Events are displayed inside an analog clock that can be used as a regular computer clock. We used SpiraClock for displaying bus schedules, and collected user feedback.