Perhaps I am way off base here... ...but what about looking for inspiration in the language of sheet music? There are representations for individual notes, their duration, and each instrument in the orchestra has its own music...the conductor has the master with all of the instruments and can see how interweave
http://www.howtodothings.com/hobbies/a2683-how-to-read-sheet-music.html http://www.holidays-to-italy.com/wp-content/uploads/carnivale.jpg Best, Carrie On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Jeremy Yuille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > not really a smarter representation, but time manager international > http://www.tmiworld.com/ make a range of printed planners etc. > I've always loved their year planner booklet because it lets you see a > month > to a page and plan down to the hour. > its schema is similar to the outlook example you mention - days on vertical > axis, hours on horizontal > > My take-away from things like this is that you get overview and detail in > one view.. one of the tenets of a good visualization > > - in response to your use cases > http://dipity.com and http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/ are both timeline > driven representations that can help (and hinder) seeing resource clash > identification etc.. but I haven't seen them being used for that purpose. > yet.. > > similie timeline is implemented as a google gadget, so it's relatively easy > to prototype with it using Gspreadsheets > dipity eats rss, so again, it's relatively easy to build a prototype to > test > ideas using pipes or similar > > actually - having looked at dipity again, it'll be less useful for you > because it doesn't support event duration that well.. > > ps: whenever i think of calendars onscreen, I'm reminded of the section in > 'about face' that takes apple to task for the abomination that is iCal :) I > think its in the section about implementation model vs experience model (or > something like that.. anyone?) > > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:51 AM, Joe Sokohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Are there smart ways to represent time and events that are "better" than > > what conventions indicate? > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
