[Sigia-l] Liquid browsing

[seth]

Interesting that you termed the "transparent spaces" demo annoying...  I
found it incredibly annoying.  I had no idea what they were attempting to
do. I thought it was my typical pre coffee crankiness.  

Perhaps a hint of the next generation of liquid browsing?  Gaseous browsing?
Vapor browsing?    

I am curious about these types of usability studies.  When something is so
new and radically different, what are the baselines?  How are comparisons
made?  Can tasks be equivalent with factors being accounted for relative to
the different UI's or are these really entirely different applications where
comparisons are not that useful?  


Seth
 
> From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org 
> [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of 
> kate.simpson at freshfields.com
> Sent: 05 July 2006 14:26
> To: sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] Liquid browsing
> 
> I didn't get it either: it could do with the website needing 
> to be parsed over a 
> good-editor-stroke-marketing-copy-editor's desk to help 
> explain what, why & how a little more clearly? 'tho I think 
> you're right Seth - I may well be of the solid browsing 
> generation... or perhaps just need it in my hands to play 
> with for a bit before I can see the point of it?
> 
> Kate
> 
> 
> Seth wrote:
> 
> 
> Belongs to the "looks cool, don't get it" family of UI's.  
> Perhaps our grand kids will say "can you believe they used to 
> use solid browsing in the old days?"

"first empirical studies show, that L2DSS can improve knowledge
browsing efficiency greatly and can be used in a wide range of
applications (like file systems, media libraries, map browsing,
email"

I can't find any further reference to these studies - you'd think they'd
at least cite them. How did they do them? What does "improve" mean here?
All seems a bit odd.

Also, looking a the video section titled "Interaction transparent
spaces" - does that not strike you as a candidate for the most annoying
and error-prone feature ever in the history of HCI? Are they trying to
make mode errors a fashionable accessory or what? 

Jonathan