Authors:
Heiko Haller
;
Andreas Abecker
and
Max Völkel
Affiliation:
FZI Research Center for Information Technology, Germany
Keyword(s):
Zooming user interface, Diagrammatic knowledge representation, HCI design, Knowledge worker.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cloud Computing
;
Data Engineering
;
Design Methodology and Cognitive Factors in Design
;
e-Business
;
Education/Learning
;
e-Learning
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Functional and Non-Functional Requirements
;
Health Information Systems
;
Human Factors
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Intelligent User Interfaces
;
Knowledge Management
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Modeling Concepts and Information Integration Tools
;
Modeling Formalisms, Languages and Notations
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Physiological Computing Systems
;
Semantic Web Technologies
;
Services Science
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
User Needs
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
We present iMapping, a novel approach for visually structuring information objects on the desktop. iMapping is developed on top of semantic desktop technologies and particularly supports personal knowledge management of knowledge workers. iMapping has been designed to combine the advantages of the three most important visual mapping approaches, Mind-Mapping, Concept Maps and Spatial Hypertext. We describe the design and prototypical implementation of iMapping—which is fundamentally based on deep zooming
and nesting. iMapping bridges the gap between unstructured content (like informal text notes) and semantic models by allowing to easily create on-the-fly annotations with the whole range of content links, from vague associations to formal relationships. Our first experimental evaluations indicate a favorable user experience and functionality, compared with state-of-the-art, commercial Mind-Mapping software.