Project Universe – Context-aware Project Management System

Daniel Kornev

Context-aware Computing Philosopher

October 8, 2010

Problem

• Desktop Metaphor can’t help user to save her activities context and effectively switch between tasks

Goals...

... Create a system that would enable user to:

• Concentrate on important projects

• Switch between projects without loosing context

• Return to previous projects after long time

• See whole picture of the project and easily jump to its details

What Does Research Tell Us?

A research study on information worker study (Czerwinski, Horvitz and Wilhite, 2004) shown:

• 1 interruption / task

• In 40% of situations user can’t return to a previous project after interruptions

Principles

• Technology is UX soul

• It should be transparent for user

• Context-aware Environment is Project Universe’s UX soul

• It is core intellectual property of the project

Concepts

• Work Environment | visual solution for user activities organization

• Automatic items layout saving | User’s Spatial Memory | Tasks & Activities Context Preservation

• Zoomable User Interface | jump from whole picture to details

• User’s Temporal Memory | Contexts navigation via temporal bar

Demo Project Universe

Thank you

Daniel Kornev

CEO & Founder

Neocyte Labs

daniel@neocytelabs.com | http://www.neocytelabs.com/ [for questions]