Displays to the Right, Displays to the Left, Displays Everywhere
An ACM Ubiquity interview with Mary Czerwinski ...
"Mary Czerwinski is Senior Researcher and Group Manager Visualization and Interaction Research Group at Microsoft Research.
UBIQUITY: Your work at Microsoft Research is focused on different display sizes. What does that involve?
CZERWINSKI: When we started our group about two years ago we were tasked with looking at the future technology of large high-resolution displays, and multiple displays, and trying to figure out what direction our software designs should take based on the way people actually work with these new displays.
UBIQUITY: What are we talking about when we say 'large'?
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." ...
"Mary Czerwinski is Senior Researcher and Group Manager Visualization and Interaction Research Group at Microsoft Research.
UBIQUITY: Your work at Microsoft Research is focused on different display sizes. What does that involve?
CZERWINSKI: When we started our group about two years ago we were tasked with looking at the future technology of large high-resolution displays, and multiple displays, and trying to figure out what direction our software designs should take based on the way people actually work with these new displays.
UBIQUITY: What are we talking about when we say 'large'?
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." ...
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