About

This is a blog for the Tab Viz project.  We are a group of three students at the University of Michigan School of Information taking a course on Information Visualization.  Our goal is to help browser users who tend to have “too many” tabs open at once make sense of the information overload they experience.

Our team is comprised of:

Liz Blankenship
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Liz is a second year student studying HCI and Social Computing. She loves cooking, hiking, and science fiction. She plans on moving to Seattle after graduation, hopefully to pursue a job that involves designing and evaluating social, educational, and/or open-source software in a way that has an impact.

Jakob Hilden
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Jakob is in his last semester at SI, studying HCI and Social Computing.  He is involved with several other projects this semester, including Talking Points and UX/UI work on the open source project Gallery.

Kerry Kao
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Kerry is a first year HCI student, who had project experiences of conducting IR evaluation comparing returned results of search engines, implanting digital collections to an open-source system named GSDL, and redesign the interaction and interfaces of Gallery2, an open-source and web-based photo album organizer. In her free time, Kerry enjoys listening to alternative rock, dancing, and going to movies.

We have release the code of our prototype Firefox extension under an open source license on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/tabviz/ Feel free to play with the prototype, look at the code and maybe even jump in if you find the application interesting.