Cloudroom: a conceptual model for managing data in space and time

Cheap broadband access and hosting infrastructure on the web have enabled many services that traditionally would have been deployed as local desktop applications to be hosted and accessed via the Internet - in the Cloud - from any network-connected device. This trend is referred to as Cloud Computing. The movement towards a network-based environment implies novel conceptual models for storing, searching and sharing digital information on the web and across devices. In this paper we describe our concept design for management and visualization of resources in the Cloud Computing paradigm. Based on our insights from qualitative user studies, we design an environment which reflects the way people use spatial and temporal memory to organize and navigate through artifacts. We then discuss how our concept builds upon existing work and its implications for future work.