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| | Desktop metaphor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In this metaphor, the monitor of a computer represents the user's desktop, upon which documents and folders of documents can be placed. | | | The desktop metaphor itself has been extended and stretched with various implementations, since access to features and usability of the computer are usually more important than maintaining the "purity" of the metaphor. | | | The first computer to popularise the desktop metaphor over the earlier command line interface was the Apple Macintosh in 1984. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_metaphor
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| | Do Metaphors Make Web Browsers Easier to Use? |
| | Metaphors are ubiquitous in the user interfaces of today’s computers. | | | Subjects in the two metaphor conditions were told that the tasks were based on a metaphor of a library, and that thinking about a library would help them to perform the tasks. | | | For example, a physical metaphor for electronic storage is to think of “storage locations as buckets.” Experimental studies of the effectiveness of metaphor in teaching programming concepts have been conducted. |
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http://www.baddesigns.com/mswebcnf.htm
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| | Desktop Metaphor |
| | 1994] of a desktop would not be used and the human may be misled by the metaphor. | | | Metaphors are used in computer interfaces in order to aid user to understand a new target domain by allowing them to comprehend it in terms of a source domain they understand [ | | | The desktop metaphor has many shortcomings and is generally inappropriate for an active reading machine. |
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http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~l0f0954/academic/cpsc610/hw2-3.htm
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| | Metaphors we compute by: bringing magic into interface design |
| | Metaphor is not about simply transporting a system of ideas from the designer's mind into the users; it is constitutive of both our theories of minds and our software. | | | In the DESKTOP metaphor, the computer screen is a virtual 'desktop' with electronic 'folders,' 'documents,' 'disk icons' and a 'trash can' which are patterned after the physical objects in the physical office. | | | The metaphors we use to understand ideas, minds and user interfaces are not separable from the "things themselves." There are no minds which are metaphysically distinct from bodies, and there are no ideas or user interfaces which are metaphysically distinct from bodily metaphors. |
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http://philosophy.uoregon.edu/metaphor/gui4web.htm
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| | A City Metaphor to Support Navigation in Complex Information Spaces |
| | The overly realistic recreation of the room metaphor lead to a representational problem that the software could not compensate, as the graphics capabilities of computers then were not sufficient to allow users to freely move in space. | | | The file system of a modern desktop computer typically is so huge that it is impossible to represent many of it's directories using the desktop metaphor. | | | It is well suited for managing files, yet the basic desktop metaphor (originally designed for several hundred documents) reached its limits with file systems that contain tens of thousands of files, which is a typical number for most personal computer systems today. |
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http://homepage.mac.com/juggle5/WORK/publications/JVisLang_City.html
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| | desktop metaphor |
| | In general, the desktop computer is too big and too heavy to be held in hand as a reading device. | | | In contrast, paper document metaphor is more proper for an active reading machine than the desktop metaphor. | | | A hypertext reading machine based on paper document metaphor has facilities for other metaphors. |
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http://www.austin.cc.tx.us/~songhome/desktop_metaphor.htm
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| | The next computer interface |
| | Gelernter is referring to the "desktop metaphor"-the term frequently used for the hierarchical system of files, folders and icons that we use to manage information stored on our home or office computers. | | | A nearer-term solution to the data glut and file loss perpetuated by the desktop metaphor will be to use 3-D graphics techniques, currently in vogue only in games and science and engineering software. | | | The problem isn't the desktop metaphor at all-it's that we're trying to use our personal computers for tasks they weren't meant to perform. |
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http://www.temple.edu/ispr/examples/ex01_12_24.html
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| | ETHICOMP2001. Gdansk, Poland. June 2001 |
| | By means of the desktop metaphor, PC vendors greatly reduced the steepness of the learning curve for their products and made computer technology available to a much larger class of users than before. | | | The desktop metaphor GUI has become almost universal as the interface between humans and computers. | | | Until the technology reaches this stage, computer vendors must recognize the limitations of the desktop metaphor and seek ways to move beyond it, even if this requires devoting more resources to user education and support. |
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http://www.ccsr.cse.dmu.ac.uk/conferences/ccsrconf/ethicomp2001/abstracts/moniot.html
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Desktop environment |
| | The desktop environments for the popular operating systems Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X are, in their intended use, relatively static. | | | The name is derived from the desktop metaphor used by most of these interfaces. | | | On systems running the X Window System (typically Unix systems), the desktop environment is much more flexible. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/D/DE/DES/Desktop_environment
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| | SAP Design Guild -- Portals - A Step Beyond the Desktop? |
| | The computer desktop metaphor is based on the office environment. | | | The advantage of computer networks and the Web is that they do not limit users to one computer (as does the desktop), but their disadvantage is that they lack structure and user support. | | | Ideas like the desktop metaphor and the WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) principle were not only born, but also realized - even though the computers available then performed miserably, and the hardware was far too expensive. |
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http://www.sapdesignguild.org/editions/edition1/print_walo2.asp
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| | The Xerox Star: A Retrospective |
| | Ubiquitous computing is another new phenomenon that could decide a new metaphor. | | | The paper discusses starting from the first visionary concept about desktop computer - “Memex” - from Vannevar Bush to “The Sketch Pad” – an interactive graphic system to “The Reactive Engine” – a PHD thesis about the desktop computer called the Flex machine. | | | Scopeware – A new metaphor where in the software automatically arranges your files in chronological order.(Mirror worlds technologies). |
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http://www-users.itlabs.umn.edu/classes/Fall-2002/csci8115/reviews/dec4.htm
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| | HCI Concepts: Metaphor |
| | A familiarizing metaphor (such as the desktop) uses familiar objects and actions as a basis for organizing the corresponding model elements on the computer. | | | The idea of user interface metaphors became popular with the advent of the graphical user interface of the Xerox Star, with its metaphorical use of desktop items, such as folders, documents, and in and out boxes. | | | There are simplistic statements about both the need to use a familiar metaphor for usability, and the dangers and problems of using metaphors (see, for example Nelson, in The Art of HCI Design). |
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http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/hcils/concepts/metaphor.html
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| | QuickSpace: New Operations for the Desktop Metaphor |
| | Changes in the use of the desktop have rendered this set of functions insufficient, and many different approaches (window managers) have been presented to mitigate this problem. | | | Prior developments propose to extend or expand the desktop metaphor. | | | Another expands the metaphor by augmenting the fundamental properties of overlapping windows in different states. |
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http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/ii/space/full.html
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| | The Old Joel on Software Forum - Desktop Metaphor |
| | The thing bad about the computer desktop, is that mine is as messy as my physical desktop. | | | I agree that there will be a paradigm shift in computer user interfaces, but not until computers move away from the desktop. | | | d) I have a desk with a computer on it with a desktop with a computer icon on it... |
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http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware?cmd=show&ixPost=38428
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| | Edge: THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2002 |
| | Critics of the desktop rightly point out that today's PC users encounter much more information than in the 1980s, when the desktop was first introduced. | | | For one, new desktop metaphors, like the 3-D software, is sexy and makes for interesting press clips. | | | These programs try to solve the problem of a cluttered desktop by presenting a new metaphor that could become just as cluttered. |
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| | desktop - a Whatis.com definition |
| | 1) Using an office metaphor, a desktop is a computer display area that represents the kinds of objects one might find on a real desktop: documents, phonebook, telephone, reference sources, writing (and possibly drawing) tools, project folders. | | | It includes representations of and access to desktop objects and also dynamic Web content as well, including integrated links to Web sites and information areas that are generated as the result of sites pushing requested information updates to the user. | | | 2) Desktop is also an abbreviated form of desktop computer, a personal computer that fits on top of a desk. |
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http://searchwin2000.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid1_gci211936,00.html
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| | Abstracting the Linux Desktop from the File-system |
| | But when you think about it, the majority of desktop computing tasks, whether simple or advanced, can be performed without any mention of /usr, /var or /home. | | | The idea of the desktop metaphor is that everything related to the user is either on or "below" the desktop (often synonymous with the "screen"). | | | The first way to abstract the Gnome desktop is to tell nautilus to use the home directory as the desktop[2]. |
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http://evolvedoo.sourceforge.net/abstract
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| | CPSC 610 Active Reading Machine Project Desktop Metaphor Shortcomings |
| | Another problem with the desktop metaphor is that it is based around files and directories. | | | The second problem with the desktop metaphor is that it is not spatial. | | | The first is that the desktop metaphor usually involves many separate programs. |
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http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~thomas/active_reader/desktop.html
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| | According to David Gelernter, the desktop metaphor is obsolete. | | | Clearly this is not someone who would place much confidence in the idea of the "desktop metaphor." Indeed, Gelernter admits that his electronic file system is just as cluttered, just as disorganized, as his physical space. | | | Change the position of a file in a cone tree, for example, and the whole tree must be rejiggered, causing users to lose their bearings. |
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/fflifestreams_pr.html
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| | "Human Computer Interaction Resource Manager" 2.0 |
| | Key to the success of this new generation of the desktop metaphor is that it be a new, compelling metaphor, that all components with which a user interacts support the notion of customizable, specialized user environments, and the focus is always on end-user value. | | | The state of emerging natural computing technologies (pen, speech, agents, and virtual reality) makes it possible to evolve from the traditional desktop metaphor for user interaction into something much more powerful and intuitive. | | | The term desktop is used to convey a complete metaphor for user interaction. |
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http://www.memphis-schools.k12.tn.us/admin/it/division/www/id1f2/2_0.htm
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| | Spring has sprung: a new desktop era for the Mac? The Register |
| | Here, the 2D metaphor breaks down, and where a more flexible and spontaneous filing system (we use the term in the loosest sense) should offer some interesting possibilities. | | | We all know what's wrong with personal computers, and we must all at some time despair at the lack of imagination of modern UI designers, who offer us ever more creative ways of futzing. | | | This seems a tedious way to do a chat, which you already know how to do, but what if that person has a birthday coming up, or needs to be kept up to date with a set of files. |
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/28611.html
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| | [No title] |
| | The desktop metaphor was, by the definition of the inventor, the use of overlapping windows resembling pieces of paper on a desktop. | | | The systems that exemplified a desktop >metaphor have been: Star, Lisa, Mac, HP New Wave, and Windows 95. | | | In particular, >Smalltalk, Perq, Apollo, Andrew, VisiOn, GEM, Symbolics, Tajo, >Cedar, InterLisp, SunView, NeWs, X-windows, Motif, and all versions of >Microsoft Windows prior to Windows 95 exemplified a window-based tools >metaphor, not the desktop metaphor. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/~hodges/Xerox/ReRewritingHistory-23-LarryTesler.txt
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| | jerakeen.org » Blog Archive » the broken desktop metaphor |
| | The fact that the only graphical way of getting at your hard disk is the ‘My Computer’ icon on the desktop means that you need to be able to get at it easily. | | | Ok, now hide all your windows and things from your computer ‘desktop’. | | | Eventually, everyone needs a hack in their windowing system so that they can get at the desktop. |
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http://jerakeen.org/blog/2004/08/13/the-broken-desktop-metaphor
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| | Is the Computer Desktop an Antique? - Soon, Apple and Microsoft will need new metaphors for their operating systems. By ... |
| | The desktop metaphor has served us well, particularly during a period of mass adoption when consolidating around one overarching visual metaphor helped new computer users adapt to life in front of the screen. | | | Interface consistency was a wise strategy for the early years of PC adoption, but the Mac's new Swiss-army-knife approach makes sense now that using desktop interfaces is as second-nature as reading to a whole generation of computer users. | | | This would be an innovative approach to file management, but also a spectacularly inefficient one because a spreadsheet or a text document reduced to 5 percent of its usual size is indistinguishable from any other spreadsheet or text document. |
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http://www.slate.com/?id=2075219
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| | W6: In Praise Of The Desktop Metaphor |
| | Today he's talking about how he's found a new "normal" with regard to the war, and he also does an excellent job taking apart the idea of a temporal metaphor for a computer interface. | | | The one advantage I see to the current way we interact with computers is its complete arbitrariness. | | | “Rethinking The Computer: The "desktop" metaphor is broken in serious ways, but so is every other metaphor people might use.” |
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http://w6daily.winn.com/001388.html
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| | Software innovator David Gelernter says the desktop is obsolete- ADTmag.com |
| | Early efforts to organize computer work, designed around development project software and desktop and file cabinet metaphors, may have reached the end of usefulness. | | | But, he noted, the company is looking at beta versions of desktop stream software with a P2P capability. | | | We decided the software we cared about was for the entire world and not just programmers, and we moved to work on Scopeware,'' Gelernter said. |
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http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=7187
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| | In Pursuit of Good Desktop Linux: Ease of Use and Ease of Migration Overview -- KDE, GNOME, and MS Windows Desktops- ... |
| | The look, feel, and features of the actual desktop metaphor, or desktop environment if you like, running on top of the Linux operating system are a very important part of what makes a desktop Linux a good one. | | | Linux operating system (OS) and the Linux desktop are better than the MS Windows OS and desktop. | | | Rather, compatibility with the MS Windows desktop is a consideration because many people are migrating from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft applications to the Linux operating system, and to free and open source software (FOSS) too, these days.Actually, we believe that the |
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http://mozillaquest.com/Linux05/Desktop_Linux_Pursuit_02_Story01.html
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| | Lifestreams: An Alternative to the Desktop Metaphor - Fertig, Freeman, Gelernter (ResearchIndex) |
| | What is needed is a metaphor and system for organizing the electronic "bits of paper" we all so easily collect, whether we create them ourselves or they come to us in the form of... | | | Abstract: We contend that managing one's own electronic world can be a frustrating task for most computer users, requiring too many separate applications, too many file transfers and format translations, the invention of too many pointless names and the construction of organizational hierarchies that too quickly become obsolete. | | | Lifestreams: An Alternative to the Desktop Metaphor (1996) |
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http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/23100.html
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| | metaphor |
| | Topics covered (depending on students' interests) will include influence of metaphors on language change, whether metaphors can be true or false, distinctions between literal and conveyed meaning, and more general issues of whether metaphors reflect or determine our conceptualizations | | | (a) Introduction, (b) The Mother of All Metaphors - Lakoff in the Gulf | | | Center for the Cognitive Science of Metaphor Online |
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http://www.stanford.edu/~dib/metaphor.html
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| | Has desktop metaphor outlived its usefulness? |
| | The desktop is now 25 years old -- isn't it time for something new? | | | Abstract: The desktop is now 25 years old -- isn't it time for something new? |
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| | Folksonomy vs. the Desktop Metaphor davidsturtz.com |
| | Smart Folders contain files grouped together based on search criteria instead of physical location, so the same file can appear in multiple Smart Folders without moving from its original saved location on your system. | | | Mac OS 10.4 Tiger's Spotlight feature promises to extend this flexibility to the desktop: | | | Many tags can be assigned to one message, the document no longer has to be placed in a single folder. |
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http://www.davidsturtz.com/weblog/archives/000137.php
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