- Information
Spaces. Interfaces to real world domains such as railroad
operations and planning or financial portfolio
management need liberal
amounts of cleverness in graphical problem
solving to make them
tractable. We continue to explore
notions of embodiment, metaphor,
conceptual proximity and the way these
apply in structuring, navigating
and extending complex information spaces.
- Large scale
ultra high resolution display environments. The DataWall
and NewsRoom projects explore what can
happen when one’s entire visual
field is filled with high resolution dynamic
pixels by creating new
projection and wall/floor/ceiling display
environments. Obvious
applications include decision support
systems, interactive art and
museum environments.
- Online Community
building tools. In the Civiscape project we developed
graphical tools such as whiteboards, 2D
and 3D conversation spaces to
support online community building, synchronous
and asynchronous
graphical discourse structuring.
The emerging VRML2 and Java3D
standards point the way toward many exciting
possibilities like, for
example, remote collaboration on 3D projects.
- Domain design
knowledge. AI techniques to capture and reuse domain
design knowledge hold out the hope of
overcoming brittle and shortlived
interfaces in complex user domains.