General description We investigate hyperstructure and flexible user interfaces as a solution to the information flood from the net. The current computing paradigm is at a dead end, since both the user interfaces and the back-end data structures are very good for each other: to go forwards, both need to be changed aggressively Participating corporations ??? Goals, results Storm (formerly mediaserver) Fillets Procedural textures Gzz The next steps in the project are * release 0.8 (currently we're at 0.8alpha1 which is operational but incomplete) * usability tests for several subtopics * true P2P networking using Storm Risks, problems Last spring, there were problems with our software engineering process, but these have been mostly solved during the summer through the introduction of some more formal processes. Other risks include possible negative results from usability tests, which would indicate a wrong overall direction and not finding more graduate students with the necessary qualifications. Co-operation opportunities * Access to office information structures in a mobile environment: using hyperstructure could make browsing document data within the limitations (bandwidth, screen, memory, UI) of a mobile environment far more feasible. * User interfaces to relational data. Writing a graphically intensive OpenGL frontend to a relational database with the ability to create ad hoc structures on top. * ... Topic map * Object/document identity in user interfaces * P2P Ad hoc networking for teamwork support * Interactive creation of hyperstructure * Bidirectional linking * Xanalogical hypertext * Relational data * Document management Research reports: * HyperText'02: * Information Visualization '02: * In preparation: * Procedural textures * Explanation of the urn-5 namespace registered to our group * Position paper on Storm -------------------------------------------------------