{. Elst, M. Kiesel, S. Schwarz, G. Buscher, A. Lauer, and A. Dengel. Knowledge Engineering: Practice and Patterns. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference, EKAW 2008, Acitrezza, Italy, September 29 - October 2, 2008., volume 5268 of LNCS, page 172--187. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, (2008)
G. Buscher, A. Dengel, and L. van Elst. CHI '08: CHI '08 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, page 2991--2996. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2008)
S. Schwarz, M. Kiesel, and L. Elst. 63 WS MRC- HCP-2008- Third International Conference on Human Centered Processes, (2008)Abstract. Knowledge workers are typically processing multiple tasks in parallel. As humans can concentrate and work on but one task at a time, users have to switch between them. The required task switching causes a high cognitive load and decreases efficiency. To reduce the costs of these task switches, we have to find ways to cope with a multitude of dormant tasks the user might switch to again. The challenges here are supporting the user to resume work on a (former) task. In this work, we employ the known multi-desktop paradigm and extend it to a task-switching interface. Each of the multiple desktops is identified with one individual context of the user. Each virtual desktop consists of a different set of applications with open documents and their positioning on screen. This helps the user to separate individual tasks and allows easy recovering when switching back. As we explicitly want to allow switching back to finished tasks in order to reuse the knowledge captured there, the multi-desktop paradigm has.
G. Buscher, A. Dengel, L. van Elst, and F. Mittag. CHI '08: CHI '08 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, page 3045--3050. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2008)
M. Kiesel, S. Schwarz, {. Elst, and G. Buscher. Proceedings of the 3rd Semantic Wiki Workshop (SemWiki 2008) at the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2008), volume 360 of CEUR Workshop Proceedings, (2008)
L. Sauermann, {. Elst, and A. Dengel. Proceedings of I-MEDIA '07 and I-SEMANTICS '07 International Conferenceson New Media Technology and Semantic Systems as part of TRIPLE-I 2007, page 270--277. Know-Center, Austria, (2007)
M. Kiesel, S. Schwarz, L. van Elst, and G. Buscher. The Semantic Web: Research and Applications, 5th European Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2008, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, June 1-5, 2008, volume 5021 of LNAI, page 817--821. Springer, (2008)
M. Sintek, {. Elst, S. Scerri, and S. Handschuh. The Semantic Web: Research and Applications - Proceedings of 4th European Semantic Web Conference ESWC 2007, volume 4519 of LNAI, page 594--608. Springer, (2007)