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This demo appears to address many issues being discussed here - it is
still under development.<br>
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href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129">http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/129</a><br>
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Surely will not be free or even cheap...but<br>
imagine what someone could do with this, <br>
Tim<br>
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Rebecca Shapley wrote:
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cite="mid:e2de46060709131945o503e1a47if85602ebb3d7bbf@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Yes, it's a degree of interest interaction. There have
been various attempts to implement this DOI idea since it came out, and
I'm pointing to this one as a rather novel implementation, that may
overcome some of the usability issues seen with hyperbolic trees, etc. <br>
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I would definitely test its usability with a taxonomic tree data set
and some "normal folk" before advocating it as the ultimate solution
for an EOL project. Denise Green and I did these types of usability
tests on three interactive tree presentations available in 2005,
providing something of a baseline against which this particular
interaction style might be judged. See: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://groups.sims.berkeley.edu/TOL/docs/GreenShapleyTOLFinalReport.pdf">http://groups.sims.berkeley.edu/TOL/docs/GreenShapleyTOLFinalReport.pdf</a>
(4 MB)<br>
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-R. <br>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/13/07, <b
class="gmail_sendername">Richard Pyle</b> <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:deepreef@bishopmuseum.org">deepreef@bishopmuseum.org</a>>
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As Rod suggested, this is pretty old news.<br>
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This begs the question: has this style of user-interface failed to
catch on<br>
more widely because of:<br>
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1) Technological limitations;<br>
2) Insufficient creativity and inspiration; or <br>
3) Insufficient usability?<br>
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I'm tempted to eliminate #3 on the grounds that I don't think this
style of<br>
UI has been widespread enough to have been subjected to, and then
failed,<br>
some sort of usability meta-experiment. <br>
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This is not to say that it won't ultimately fail such a meta-experiment
--<br>
just that it hasn't really had a chance to fail it yet.<br>
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Rich<br>
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