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visuos - a visuospatial operating software for knowledge work Abstract- English Today's knowledge workers have access to practically endless amounts of information resources. However, this information alone is not of use when it cannot be effectively accessed and organized. Today's solutions are a collection of heterogeneous, inconsistent separate environments that are not optimized for efficiency in higher workflows that are typical of knowledge work.
visuos is the concept of an operating software for knowledge work. It efficiently covers various forms of access to knowledge spaces, including for example knowledge management, information retrieval/ research/ refinement, monitoring of knowledge resources and automation and scheduling of tasks. It is a highly usable system for a broad target group - from novice to expert. Its modular structure allows the user to adapt the system to his specific degree of experience and his individual form of access to knowledge spaces. The modules are integrated by a holistic conceptual model that allows effective workflows with minimum friction.
The benefits of the system include a completely novel functionality, new workflows, a maximized target group, higher efficiency and productivity and a greater degree of user confidence.
Background
visuos - a visuospatial operating software for knowledge work- started off as a research project funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation). It is the doctoral thesis of Dr. Dipl.-Des. Clemens Lango.
The Project has been advised by Prof. Dr. Dr. Mihai Nadin, Computational Design/ Universität Wuppertal.
Further readers:
Prof. Dr. Terry Winograd, Computer Science/ Stanford University, California, USA
Dr.-Ing. Reinhard Moeller, Dept. of Electrical and Information Engineering/ University of Wuppertal
Abstract - Deutsch
visuos - eine visuell-räumliche operating software für knowledge work
Knowledge worker haben heutzutage Zugriff auf praktisch unbegrenzte Mengen von Informationen. Diese Informationen alleine stellen jedoch keinen Nutzen dar, wenn auf sie nicht effektiv zugegriffen werden kann.
Derzeit erhältliche Lösungen sind eine Ansammlung verschiedenartiger Systeme, die nicht auf Effektivität in den für knowledge work typischen, übergeordneten Prozesse ausgerichtet sind.
visuos ist ein Softwarekonzept für knowledge work. Es unterstützt verschiedene Arten des Zugriffes auf Wissensräume wie zum Beispiel Informations-Suche, Recherche, Vertiefung, Überwachung von Wissens-Ressourcen und Automatisierung von Aufgaben. Es ist ein für eine breite Zielgruppe - Anfänger und Experten - höchst anwenderfreundliches System. Seine modulare Struktur erlaubt dem Nutzer, es an seinen Erfahrungsgrad und die jeweilige Art des Zugriffes auf Wissensräume anzupassen. Die Module sind durch ein ganzheitliches konzeptionelles Modell integriert, das effektive Arbeitsabläufe ermöglicht und Reibungsverluste minimiert.
Das System bietet neuartige Funktionen und ermöglicht so neue Arbeitsabläufe. Es erhöht Effizienz und Produktivität für eine breite Zielgruppe und führt so zu einem hohen Grad an Nutzerzufriedenheit.
Hintergrund
visuos - eine visuell-räumliche operating software für knowledge work -begann als DFG-Forschungsprojekt (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Es ist die Doktorarbeit von Dr. Dipl.-Des. Clemens Lango.
Betreut wurde die Arbeit von Prof. Dr. Dr. Mihai Nadin, Computational Design/ Universität Wuppertal.
Weitere Gutachter:
Prof. Dr. Terry Winograd, Computer Science/ Stanford University, California, USA
Dr.-Ing. Reinhard Moeller, Dept. of Electrical and Information Engineering/ University of Wuppertal
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Hochschule / Fachbereich
Universität Wuppertal
Mediengestaltung
URL der Hochschule
» http://www.code.uni-wuppertal.de
Betreuer des Projekts
Prof. Dr. Mihai Nadin
Kommentar des Betreuers
Knowledge work is the subject that Clemens Lango chose as his subject of interest. He decided to remain within design by suggesting an operating software, not a new program. An operating software is an artefact of extreme importance given the fact that knowledge work exposes the knowledge worker to a variety of software programs and hardware implementation. Networking makes the whole even more complex. His Ph.D. thesis takes into consideration the complexity of Internet-based work and address aspects that we are all aware of. visuos could, if implemented with enough attention to detail become a powerful aid to all those who have to deal with a huge variety of knowledge sources and a very broad variety of data types.
His thesis is an original contribution, foundational in nature. It is in the nature of the technology addressed in his work to undergo fast cycles of change. Clemens Lango has tried to overcome this intrinsic condition.
The project has a high degree of closeness to reality. There is a widespread demand for innovation in the field of software solutions for knowledge work.
Seminar / Kurzbeschreibung
The precursor of the thesis subject was part of the DFG (German Science Foundation) funded research project "Interactive multimedia navigation". The concept has been invited for presentation at various conferences such as "Media Forum Cologne 1997 & 1998" - Cologne, "Ed-Media - Ed-Telecom 1998" - Freiburg, "Content Visualization and Intermedia Representations 1998" - Quebec/ Canada, "Envisioning Knowledge - The Knowledge Society and the New Media 1999" - Munich.
Zuordnung Forschungsbereich
visuos' started off as a research project funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation). It is the doctoral thesis of Dr. Dipl.-Des. Clemens Lango. Clemens Lango belongs to the very few who understand that design has reached a new stage and that research in design has become a legitimate goal for this stage. The computational foundation of design entails a new condition. While everything that designers knew from past practice aesthetic relevance, implicit communication, the functionality and ergonomic quality of the designed object, interdisciplinarity, etc. remains valid, we are now in a phase in which the designer, not unlike the software developer, generates tools at the meta-level, not at the object level. More precisely, to design an interface, for example, means to understand software and hardware, the characteristics of the users, and the characteristics of the activity to be eventually supported. To design ubiquitous computing means to integrate, not to isolate, activities. Moreover, design has made possible. Without design, what is possible remains only possible. Things become real as we design and implement them.
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