Management of familiar information
Prism
We studied the evolving work practices of biologists and the role of paper and electronic laboratory notebooks to support their individual and collaborative activity. In a participatory design approach, combined with longitudinal field we tested Prism, a hybrid lab notebook for biologists to capture, visualize and interact with streams of activity.
Prism provides an interactive access to cross-linked activity streams: hand-written notes on paper, type-written notes on-line, and key points (web sites, emails, analysis results) from users' computer activity, as well as web based activity.We used Prism as an extensible technology probe that users could adapt to integrate additional streams and share information from other biologists. Our key findings include the notion of master documents, whether paper or electronic, and the importance of redundancy, which biologists use to make sense of their data. Prism provides a flexible, extensible tool that supports individual and collaborative reflection in creative work.
A. Tabard, E. Eastmond and W. E. Mackay
From Individual to Collaborative: The Evolution of Prism, a Hybrid Laboratory Notebook
In CSCW '08 : Proceedings of the 21th conference on Computer supported cooperative work.
10 pages. ACM Press.
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Shengqiong Yuan, Aurélien Tabard and Wendy Mackay (2008)
Streamliner: A General-Purpose Interactive Course-Visualization Tool.
In Proceedings of KAM'08, International Symposium on Knowledge Acquisition and Modeling.
6 pages. IEEE Press.
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A. Tabard and T. Tsandilas,
The Reactivity Notebook
In Copadd 2007: 2nd International Workshop Collaborating over Paper and Digital Documents
Demonstration
Web Navigation
PageLinker
PageLinker is a browser extension that contextualises navigation by linking web pages together. The links between pages can be created implicitly through copy/paste events between webpages. Links can also be created manually by users who want to link specifically two pages.
PageLinker allows navigation through a network of related web pages without prior planning. By presenting links in context, PageLinker facilitates web page revisitation, is less prone to bookmark overload and is highly robust to changes which happen on the web.
Tabard, A., Mackay, W., Roussel, N., and Letondal, C. (2007).
PageLinker: integrating contextual bookmarks within a browser.
In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems. CHI '07. 337-346. April 2007. ACM Press.
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N. Roussel, A. Tabard and C. Letondal. (2006)
All you need is log.
In WWW 2006 Workshop on Logging Traces of Web Activity:
The Mechanics of Data Collection, May 2006. 4 pages.
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Navtracer
Navtracer is a Firefox extension that partially logs users' activity on the browser. It was developped for the evaluation of PageLinker.
Design sketches
Stickychat
Stickychat is an open play platform for kids. Special stickers are associated to audio messages. The messages can be recorded and listened to via mobile phones.Designed at IDII with Alexandra Sonsino and Nicholas Zambetti
Messaging table
The messaging table is a coffee table connected to Instant Messenging. It displays the availability of contacts and information about the time spent online.
Comètes
Cometes is an alternative to common GPS based location systems. Instead of representing static maps, we represent movements of people situated in the surrounding.Designed at ENSCI
Past projects
Gattaca
Gatacca is the prototype of a E-textbook that helps students
organize their time and activities through a decision system based
on a fuzzy logic model.
Our work contributed to the creation of a startup: ilobjects
Ment2
Ment2 (MEdiation iN Two Time), as our end of studies project,
with Frank Rousseau, we developped Ment2 prototype implementation
for Nicolas Lumineau.
Ment2 allows sharing sets of structured, heterogeneous and
distributed data via the interoperability of mediators in a
peer-to-peer architecture.
Ment2 is available at
http://www-poleia.lip6.fr/~lumineau/logiciels/ment2/