People are ready to adapt to a more eco-friendly lifestyle when they are aware of the possible problems of their lifestyle. Designing for persuasion works when feedback to a user increases awareness without intruding upon a primary task.
We designed two Mac OS X Widgets named “Coralog” and “Timelog.” They detect the duration of a user’s [...]
Tag Archives: Ambient Display
Ambient Display for Sustainability
A taxonomy of ambient information systems: four patterns of design
Z. Pousman and J. Stasko, “A taxonomy of ambient information systems: four patterns of design,” Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces, Venezia, Italy: ACM, 2006, pp. 67-74.
This 2006 conference paper discusses a taxonomy of ambient information system, which is one sub-area of InfoVis research. This paper starts with the extensive survey on [...]
Aesthetic information collages: generating decorative displays that contain information
J. Fogarty, J. Forlizzi, and S.E. Hudson,“Aesthetic information collages: generating decorative displays that contain information,” Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, Orlando, Florida: ACM, 2001, pp. 141-150.
www.cs.washington.edu/homes/jfogarty/publications/uist2001.pdf
This 2001 conference article is one of the many examples that explains engineers’ views on aesthetics in Information Visualization. Their view [...]