Visuos

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 this 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.

"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

INHALT
Part I Introduction
Chapter 1 Roadmap; Chapter 2 Project background; Chapter 3 Objective; Chapter 4 Why is it a design task?

Part II Analysis
Chapter 5 Challenge and problems; Chapter 6 Interaction, navigation, and hypermedia; Chapter 7 Classes of information spaces; Chapter 8 Visualization of information spaces; Chapter 9 Querying information spaces; Chapter 10 Link classes and trails; Chapter 11 Process and file management

Part III Synthesis
Chapter 12 System architecture and interface issues; Chapter 13 System modules; Chapter 14 Visual query; Chapter 15 Venn diagrams for spaces; Chapter 16 Integration of spaces and queries; Chapter 17 Link-manager; Chapter 18 Flow

Part IV Concept, development, and implementation
Chapter 19 System description; Chapter 20 Feature overview; Chapter 21 General interface issues; Chapter 22 Working with elements; Chapter 23 Working with set modules; Chapter 24 Space; Chapter 25 Query; Chapter 26 Link-manager; Chapter 27 Flow; Chapter 28 Content; Chapter 29 Future work

Part V Digital presentation
Part V is the practical, computer based digital presentation of the project. It is a visualization of the software and a demonstration of its functionality illustrated by usage scenarios. It can be started over the internet at http://visuos.com