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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ChroNotes/
├── readme.md (introduction)
├── LICENSE (CCBY4.0)
└── Contents/
    ├── Flowcharts/
    │   ├── Flowcharts.jam (interactive, full-size, not-stretched graphs)
    │   ├── HAPP.pdf
    │   ├── PTAPP.pdf
    │   ├── PPLAT.pdf
    │   └── LEGEND.pdf
    └── Prototype/
        ├── FIGMA-High Fidelity
        │   └── ChroNotes.fig (compressed to fit hosting file size)
        └── 3D (pending)

OVERVIEW

ChroNotes is a master thesis project by Giacomo Albani ( @giaaaacomo ), following the manuscript named "CHRONOTES: STRATIFICAZIONE TEMPORALE DELL’INFORMAZIONE NELLO SPATIAL COMPUTING" ("CHRONOTES: TEMPORAL STRATIFICATION OF INFORMATION IN THE SPATIAL COMPUTING REALM") for his degree in Interaction & Experience design at UNIRSM Design. The project is thought as an implementation to the PROXIMA XTENDIT toolkit (by BSD Design, UNIBO ADU and PROTESA), that allows advanced and multimedial note-taking and multimodal/XR fruition of the contents in industrial training in low resources scenarios. While XTENDIT naturally allows to associate information to specific points-of-interest, ChroNotes adds the temporal dimension to the whole package, allowing for notes instancing and evolution over time, time filtering of contents in regard to internal and external updates (software/hardware/regulations), and consequentially the formation of a business-wide knowledge base.

DISCLAIMER - ABOUT THE FILES IN THIS REPO

Since ChroNotes is based on PROXIMA and the XTENDIT toolkit, which intellectual property belongs to the partners involved in the project, only the original content of the ChroNotes implementation has been made available in this repository. The Figma prototype files and, in general, all the existing content, although designed along the XTENDIT framework to fit exactly the PROXIMA project, have therefore been stripped down to avoid intellectual fraud.

 

INTRODUCTION

Human-computer interaction has undergone considerable changes since the early 2000s, largely due to the power, ubiquity and interwining abilities of mobile devices. The recent introduction and spread of artificial intelligence and related technologies has enabled us to use the sensory properties of devices to create models or "maps" of the world in which to place reality data. Interfaces for virtual, augmented and extended reality now enable us to access this dimension, visualise its contents and interact with them in a more natural way, making use of our perception and spatial organisation capacities. These different aspects, united by a tendency to represent the real in the virtual and vice versa, were first addressed by Simon Greenwold in his 2003 doctoral thesis at MIT Boston, titled "Spatial Computing". Greenwold describes this field as 'human interaction with a machine that stores and manipulates references to real objects and spaces'. ChroNotes is the result of research and experimentation regarding the use of spatial computing applied to information and data, the interaction with them and the resulting user experience.