Cloudtop
Even as users rely more on the web for their computing needs, they continue to depend on a desktop-like area for quick access to in-use resources. The traditional desktop is file-centric and prone to clutter, making it suboptimal for use in a web-dominated world. This paper introduces Cloudtop, a br...
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| author | Pham, Hubert Mazzola Paluska, Justin Miller, Robert C. Ward, Steve |
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| description | Even as users rely more on the web for their computing needs, they continue to depend on a desktop-like area for quick access to in-use resources. The traditional desktop is file-centric and prone to clutter, making it suboptimal for use in a web-dominated world. This paper introduces Cloudtop, a browser plugin that offers a lightweight workplace for temporary items, optimized around the idea that its contents originate from and will ultimately return to the web. Cloudtop improves upon the desktop by 1) implementing a simple, time-based notebook metaphor for managing clutter, 2) capturing and bundling extensible metadata for web resources, and 3) providing a platform for greater interface uniformity across sites. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/790502022-10-02T00:52:28Z Cloudtop Pham, Hubert Mazzola Paluska, Justin Miller, Robert C. Ward, Steve Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Pham, Hubert Paluska, Justin Mazzola Miller, Robert C. Ward, Steve Even as users rely more on the web for their computing needs, they continue to depend on a desktop-like area for quick access to in-use resources. The traditional desktop is file-centric and prone to clutter, making it suboptimal for use in a web-dominated world. This paper introduces Cloudtop, a browser plugin that offers a lightweight workplace for temporary items, optimized around the idea that its contents originate from and will ultimately return to the web. Cloudtop improves upon the desktop by 1) implementing a simple, time-based notebook metaphor for managing clutter, 2) capturing and bundling extensible metadata for web resources, and 3) providing a platform for greater interface uniformity across sites. 2013-05-30T20:01:13Z 2013-05-30T20:01:13Z 2011-10 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 9781450310147 1450310141 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/79050 Pham, Hubert, Justin Mazzola Paluska, Robert C. Miller, and Steve Ward. Cloudtop. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM Symposium Adjunct on User Interface Software and Technology - UIST '11 Adjunct, Association for Computing Machinery, October 16–19, 2011, Santa Barbara, California, USA. 2011. p.69-70. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9255-307X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0442-691X en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2046396.2046427 Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium adjunct on User interface software and technology - UIST '11 Adjunct Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Association for Computing Machinery Miller via Amy Stout |
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