On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Cliff McKnight wrote:
> Andy,
> Very interesting -- my navigation lectures will never be the same again!
>
> One small side-effect on my Mac (LC475, System 7.1) was that the UKOLN
> URL got written to the menu bar and the system font got mangled so all
> the menu bar and menus went small and distorted, but a re-boot sorted
> that out.
Works fine on my PC :-)
> I can't wait to explore some other sites - there's some great human factors
> research waiting to be done here...
>
> Cliff
I mentioned HotSauce in a talk on metadata I gave yesterday at the OMNI
Seminar. I described using HotSauce as like watching Star Trek, seeing
metadata fly past rather than stars. I was asked later what the point of
graphical visualisation of metadata was. I suggested that a 3D
user inteface could provide a more usable user inteface (and compared the
2D desktop metaphor we are familiar with with the command line interface
we used to have). I also suggested that extra clues could be provided
by the use of colours, say, rather than textual descriptions.
However I still haven't got a clear idea of the benefits of software such
as HotSauce. Any suggestions on the benefits of such interfaces?
Thanks
Brian
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Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus
UKOLN, University of Bath, BATH, BA2 7AY
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