Comment Cool Visualization Ideas (Score 1) 510
On reading the article, the aspect that really caught my eye was the thread visualization. How I've longed for something like what's shown in the screenshots (and in the linked paper). The other two visualizations are interesting, but I'm ambivalent as to their utility. However, a mechanism for viewing only the most recent mail in a thread with a built in visualization to let me navigate to previous mails in the thread - that sounds really rather cool and useful.
Re: comments on IBM and the UI's they "own" (e.g. Lotus Notes). Keep in mind that IBM is rather a huge organization. Even if they don't necessarily have the best UIs in existence, their research departments do some novel and exciting work (viz IBM Alphaworks) in many areas.
Re: comments on IBM and the UI's they "own" (e.g. Lotus Notes). Keep in mind that IBM is rather a huge organization. Even if they don't necessarily have the best UIs in existence, their research departments do some novel and exciting work (viz IBM Alphaworks) in many areas.
