From: Maarten van Dantzich [maartenv@MICROSOFT.com]
Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 3:53 PM
To: 'Matthew Brown'
Cc: '3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu'
Subject: The Data Mountain


[I thought this might be of general interest.]

The Data Mountain is described in 

  Robertson et al, 
  "The Data Mountain: Using Spatial Memory for Document Management", 
  UIST98, 

available off our website:
http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/ui/

There were follow-up papers in CHI99 (on "Implicit Query", also on that web
page under 1999) and Interact99 (on the relative contribution of Thumbnails
vs. Spatial Memory).  The web page is a little out of date, sorry.

>> Maarten.

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Brown [mailto:mbrown@hitl.washington.edu]
Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 12:46 PM
To: Maarten van Dantzich
Subject: Re: Member introduction



Hi Maarten,
I work at the HIT lab here at UW. What is Data Mountain? I haven't heard
of it and a web search reveals nothing...
Matt Brown

On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Maarten van Dantzich wrote:

> 
> I quietly joined the list a while back.
> 
> I'm in the Adaptive Systems & Interaction group at Microsoft Research,
> working with George Robertson, Ken Hinckley, Dan Robbins, et al. on 3D UI
> for the desktop. I was one of the implementers of the Data Mountain (3D UI
> for Web Favorites & for personal document management in general), and more
> recently we built the Task Gallery, a 3D window manager that hosts real
> (unmodified) Windows applications. In general we try to do 3D with a very
> low barrier to entry (2D interaction technques, no special devices) while
> still getting some of the advantages of 3D visuals (perceptual cues,
spatial
> metaphor, etc.); we also try to do some psych studies to probe some basic
> research issues--most notably use of spatial memory as an aid to
organizing.
> 
> 
> >> Maarten.
> 
>