[IxDA Discuss] RE : Re: Bumptop

[Alain D. M. G. Vaillancourt]

Desktop management is not an issue for now on the average screen
because if you look at the office or home user you see a single screen
and that screen is set at an average of 1024 by 768 pixels.  This is
way too low.  Even people who have a "triplemon" three screen
arrangement (with each screen set at 1600 by 1200 pixels) still have a
rather "primitive" desktop when it comes to any comparison with the
high resolution given by actual paper arrayed on actual desk surfaces
and walls, and with all the little stickie notes and things you can
post on them.

When you want to consider the usefulness of things like Bumptop you
have to think in terms of a much higher resolution triplemon setup (or
any comparable setup with a 4 to 1 screen surface ratio) combined with
a projected screen working at the same time (like the additional
projector in the IBM bluespace prototype but with much higher
resolution) and also combined with other screens lying around the same
office. In other words you have to think in terms of 4 to 8 years from
now, and not what your customer wants next year or next month.

This all means that I'm very enthusiastic about Bumptop, even if they
don't realise they're way off track with those "tidy piles" which are
way too tidy, in my view, and those "messy piles" which aren't messy
enough.  They just come a tiny bit close to the crucial topics of pile
annotation and item annotation at the end when they mention the
capacity to "fold" documents.  They still have a long way to go there
but they're on the right track.

Alain Vaillancourt
 
--- Mark Schraad <mschraad at mac.com> a écrit :

> There is a "sizzle" to this demo that reminds me of the edge popping 
> 
> contextual toolboxes that AT&T Labs were using for RIO [early spline 
> 
> graphics drawing software] back in the eighties. I am just not sure  
> though, who the real audience would be. If I draw on the people I  
> have observed or interviewed in prior projects, I do not recall  
> desktop document management being a huge issue. If I think  
> introspectively - I can imagine that this might save me a few minutes
>  
> a week - or month. That is a lot of horsepower for the pay off.
> 
> It is a pretty impressive and polished demo non-the-less. Maybe its  
> greatest benefit is in the hype/marketing arena.
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> On Mar 1, 2007, at 3:32 AM, Jonas Löwgren wrote:
> 
> > Concerning explorative design/pushing the boundaries, it is
> > interesting to note that Bumptop is the first compelling
> > demonstration I have seen of the desktop-pile ideas that were
> > advanced in 1991 by people at Apple Research (in a chapter of The
> Art
> > of HCI Design, ed. B. Laurel). Apparently, it can sometimes take 16
> > years for technology and design to advance to the level where a
> > conceptual proposal starts making "practical" sense.
> 
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