Working in a Digital Visual Environment: The Desktop Rethought

Facilitator: Harlan Hugh
Company: TheBrain
Session #: 407
Session Title: Working in a Digital Visual Environment: The Desktop Rethought

Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Time: 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Room: Concordia

Description

If you are like most people, the basic interface to your information probably looks a lot like it did 20 years ago. The digital desktop revolutionized computing by eliminating the need to type arcane commands, but by today’s graphical standards, it hardly scratches the surface of the potential for a truly visual interface. The electronic version of a paper-based hierarchical filing system has served us well as a nice introduction to computing for the TV generation, but limits users into organizing information into folders that needlessly separate content. 

Instead of basing the way we organize information on industrial age metaphors like filing cabinets, we need to create a digital environment based on the most powerful information processor in existence, the human mind. Associative computing has no limits. Any piece of information can be linked and connected to anything else, triggering all relevant information.

Instead of thinking about visualization only in terms of discrete applications, such as presenting or brainstorming, why not leverage its power for your everyday needs in organizing and understanding your digital word? This presentation will show how it’s possible to use visualization not only to transform your desktop, but to capture and leverage your own thoughts and thinking for everything you do and all the information you work with.

Join Harlan Hugh and explore the application of visualization to mapping the complex associative networks that form the basis of the way we think and work.

Agenda:

• Introduction to visualization
• Creating information networks of Thoughts
• Integrating files and web pages from your perspective
• Example Brains for getting things done
• Getting started on your own personal interface for your desktop
• Harlan’s most useful Thoughts in his Brain
• Q&A