Desktop Environment as a Problem Solving Tool
نویسنده
چکیده
The computer desktop environment, since its introduction in Xerox’s Star computer and popularization by Apple’s Macintosh computer [1], is the favorite general-purpose computer interface. The desktop provides graphical access to common utilities and important rudimentary tools for organizing the user’s work in windows. Linux distributions recognize the importance of the desktop and provide multiple customizable desktops, but these desktops are not significantly different from the original 1980’s desktops. The desktop can and should offer environments for efficient working and assist in creative problem solving. Because of the traditions of openness and innovation in the Linux community, I believe that Linux systems are capable and primed to develop desktop environments that truly assist the user in problem solving. This article explores the role of the desktop as a problem-solving tool and provides design considerations for desktop developers.
منابع مشابه
SimVIZ - A Desktop Virtual Environment for Visualization and Analysis of Protein Multiple Simulation Trajectories
In silico protein conformation simulation generates massive amounts of data which needs to be properly visualized and analyzed. We are applying Desktop Information-Rich Virtual Environments (Desktop IRVE’s) techniques and concepts to aid multiple trajectory simulation analysis, improving user experience and developing a problem-solving environment to help the decision making process. We will pr...
متن کاملVirtual Reality and Desktop as a Combined Interaction-Visualisation Medium for a Problem-Solving Environment
The paper addresses the problem of how to make a human-machine interaction user-friendlier within a problem-solving environment. Two different projection modalities – virtual reality and desktop solution are compared in respect to interaction capabilities provided by the Virtual Radiology Explorer (VRE) – case study of this research. The VRE is a problem-solving environment for vascular reconst...
متن کاملOn the Use of Services to Support Numerical Weather Prediction
The challenges of building an effective grid-based problem solving environment that truly extends and embraces a computational scientist's traditional tools are multifold. It is far too easy to build simple stovepipes that allow fixed use patterns, that don't extend a scientist's desktop, and fail to encompass the full range of patterns that a scientist needs to find such a problem-solving envi...
متن کاملBringing combined interaction to a problem solving environment for vascular reconstruction
The paper addresses the problem of how to make a human–computer interaction user-friendlier within a problem solving environment (PSE). Pre-operative planning of a vascular reconstruction procedure is a case study for this research. The Virtual Radiology Explorer (VRE) presented in the paper has being deployed for the virtual reality (VR) and desktop projection modalities. Both projection modal...
متن کاملA Complex Engineering Design Problem Solving Environment Grid Portal
A Complex Engineering Design Problem Solving Environment (CED PSE) portal targeted at computational science and engineering (CSE) users is described in this paper. The portal offers engineers and scientists with seamless access to the PSE’s range of domain specific computational tools, information and resources acting as a single point of access to the Complex Engineering Design support environ...
متن کامل