Tower Hill's Knowledge Room - now Windows-PC users can navigate, gather, organize and recall information content in 3-D space!

The windows desktop metaphor is dead! Knowledge Room immerses the user in a richly-rendered "virtual world", in which books are placed and moved about. Information - web content, emails, documents, multimedia - is drag/dropped into books. Recall is as intuitive as pulling a book from a shelf in a certain place in this "world".

Minneapolis, MN, Feb. 19, 2002-Tower Hill Development, Inc. announces "Knowledge Room" -
their latest MS-Windows software product.

Knowledge Room uses cutting-edge 3-D technology to enable users to navigate, gather, organize, and recall information. Taking advantage of human perception and spatial memory, Knowledge Room helps people organize information in their computer in the same way they organize and manage things in the real world: by manipulating objects in three-dimensional space, with a sense of color and texture, light and shadow.

From the start, Knowledge Room places the user inside of a large room with high beamed ceilings, an upper loft, brick walls and a number of oak and mahogany bookshelves...their own "knowledge room". The user clicks on an area within this large room to open a close-up environment view of that area.

The environment view engages the user's sense of perception, invoking a different thought process: "I keep music files over in the entertainment center, near the stereo"; "A list of my favorite online newspapers are in the large green book on the bottom shelf near the couch"; "Notes I made on that problem I had with my DVD drive should be somewhere on the top shelf near the computer monitor"; "travel-related websites are on the bottom shelf near the airplane model"; "the URL for the map of Italy I like would be on the first shelf below the large map of the world on the brick wall in the upper loft area."

Knowledge Room users organize information into books. A book can contain many things: web page bookmarks, saved web page content, notes, documents, email messages, or references to pictures, music, spreadsheets - anything launched from your traditional Windows desktop.

Gathering content into books is easy. One can use Knowledge Room's integrated web browser to drag-and-drop bookmarks or actual web page content into books. Email messages and files may be dropped onto books from outside of the program. In addition a feature called "Auto-clip" allows the user to automatically add information to a book from any program.

Users can further organize content within a book with a table of contents view. A table of contents is really a dynamic outline: users move items around within topics and subtopics they assign.

In addition to recalling items spatially, users may assign keyword phrases to any content item (including web pages, and multimedia). Recalling items is as easy as typing the first few letters of a keyword phrase. A timeline allows users to peruse all content they've gathered over time.

"Knowledge Room provides an exciting alternative to the decades-old desktop metaphor.", says Scott Fredrickson, president of Tower Hill Development. "The desktop was the foray into graphical user interfaces. It was a revolutionary improvement upon old command-based systems. But it is 2-dimensional, non-intuitive, and limits us to thinking only of icons, folders, and files. As a mountain of documents grows over the years, the same folder/file desktop metaphor plagues us with clutter and confusion. Current web browsers only exacerbate the situation, giving us access to a world of information, with only flat folder bookmarks to keep track of it all."

"Tower Hill Development is focused on developing new user interfaces which take advantage of our natural ability to see and remember in 3-dimensions, with a sense of color, light and shadow. By tapping into non-linear thinking, such interfaces allow us to pack a lot more information in the same screen space used by the old-desktop."

"Knowledge Room....
...putting information in its place."

Pricing & Availability

Knowledge Room is priced at only $19.95 and is available now from Tower Hill's website:

     http://www.towerhill.com

Knowledge Room runs on MS-Windows-based PCs. Specifically, the following are minimum requirements:
    WINDOWS 2000, 98/ME/XP, NT4.0
    

About Tower Hill Development, Inc.

Tower Hill Development, Inc. is a software consulting and publishing company incorporated in 1992. Initially a provider of consulting and contract development, the company began to focus on finding new ways for people to gather information and build knowledge, releasing its first product - Knowledge Vision - in 1996.

Tower Hill Development is headquarted in Minneapolis, MN.