Discussion of the Article "Space to Think" - 2/15/11
Discussion of the article Space to think: large high-resolution displays for sensemaking
Discussion points
- Subjects used the screen as External Memory.
- There was lack of any tools to further optimize large resolutions
- The study contained no quantitative data.
- Is there the possibility of too much data displayed?
- Many organize documents such as you might on a desk
Class Discussion
- Sense-making (interesting term)
- peoples methods of making sense of things
- Too much information
- distractions
- when screens used efficiently, very helpful
- don't have to think about the information in other papers, they could glance between them
- didn't try to adjust to different screen formats.
- mouse movements on large displays
- Owners of large displays would have tools to optimize use
- paper notes with the small display versus digital notes on the large screen
- one subject found the tool, and his use of the screen was reduced
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