TabViz final presentation for Info Viz class

We had our final presentation for Information Visualization class on the evening of April 29th. Our prototype is still a little buggy, and as Murphy’s Law would have it, our demo got off to a rough start. A quick browser restart later, we shared a successful demonstration of using our radial layout to aid tab refinding after doing a Google search.

Here are the slides from our presentation:

Eventually the entire presentation will be available on Michigan’s Deep Blue.

As Jakob said in his recent post, we now have a Google code project. We hope that anyone who is interested will feel free to let us know and get involved. We discussed some of the areas we still need to work on in the presentation. To name a few:

• Accordion tabs (making the history of a single tab available within a wedge) are only partially implemented
• Hover effects (showing the entire thumbnail and title when someone hovers over a wedge)
• Finding a way to capturing screenshots before a tab has been viewed (Tab Preview does this)
• Appropriate resizing of screenshots (currently screen dimensions are hard coded)

And of course, we will need to test thoroughly.

That’s all for now. Although the class is completed, we all plan to pursue this project further to make a more reliable and useful extension. Look for more updates later this summer!