January 22, 2005

The Very Large Display Array

From an interview with Mary Czerwinski, enior Researcher and Group Manager of VIBE [Visualization and Interaction Research Group] in at Microsoft Research.ACM: Ubiquity

UBIQUITY: What are we talking about when we say "large displays"?

CZERWINSKI: Let's just imagine in the future that you have your walls around your office as your displays, or at least as additional display surfaces. So instead of actually having piles of papers on your desk, you might actually have — literally might have a visual design of piles of windows on your displays around you. And you may have a very large display like let's say a 42-inch or a 50-inch screen in front of you that you're working on, you know, as more of a personal workspace. But then you'll use your walls as additional display space so you can lay everything out, keeping it visible, so you can monitor what's going on in those separate tasks if you will. In contrast, you'll be working very closely and personally with information on your desktop.

Posted by Vanderleun at January 22, 2005 9:34 AM
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What the hell is an "office?" Is this guy NUTS? All I can imagine in the future is that we will all be using head-mounted displays with headphones so that we can sit, cheek-to-cheek (yes, pun intended) with our fellow workers, chatting away in teleconferences (now that the meeting rooms are all gone), and clacking away on the terminals affixed to our chests a la Bob Dylan's harmonic holder. We'll be all lined up in rows with just enough space between to maneuver out to take a leak. Wait, maybe they'll fix that too. Yeah, a newer ergonmic chair, with auto-flush.

Posted by: Paul Dirac at January 24, 2005 1:11 AM

What the hell is an "office?" Is this guy NUTS? All I can imagine in the future is that we will all be using head-mounted displays with headphones so that we can sit, cheek-to-cheek (yes, pun intended) with our fellow workers, chatting away in teleconferences (now that the meeting rooms are all gone), and clacking away on the terminals affixed to our chests a la Bob Dylan's harmonica holder. We'll be all lined up in rows with just enough space between to maneuver out to take a leak. Wait, maybe they'll fix that too. Yeah, a newer ergonmic chair, with auto-flush.

Posted by: Paul Dirac at January 24, 2005 1:11 AM