Project Chronicle was released to Autodesk Labs, our place to share innovative new technolgies in a way that we can collaborate with our users, for more people to try in the context of AutoCAD, Inventor and Revit.ĭuring this time, the toolset and interface went through some refinements (you can see a little of that in the above image). With this in mind, the Autodesk Research Transfer group was engaged to help bring Chronicle to a wider audience.
Self-Retrospect: help a user to remember how they did something or what their tool settings were.New Tutorial Format: this is a much easier way to create tutorials.Implicit Learning Aid: when working with publically shared documents, the user could review the associated tools and workflows (e.g.Team Support: review how a colleague carried out tasks to understand the current state of a document (e.g.
In reviewing the Chronicle functionality with the test users, the feedback was very positive and suggested for: Having a such a prototype allowed the group to test the concepts with users, measure the success of the tools and refine the workflows. As video is a visual experience, it was important to give the user more insight into various parts of the video, as you can see below in the Chronicle prototype built into Paint.NET, with images showing what happens at various stages and a rich timeline referencing different events.
The undo queue has a list of the commands that have been executed by the users and is therefore something that could be utilized to playback what the user did for others to learn from.įrom that idea, there was exploration around how to improve the video playback experience. Way back in 2010, Tovi Grossman, Justin Matejka and George Fitzmaurice from the Autodesk Research User Interface Group published a paper entitled Chronicle: Capture, Exploration, and Playback of Document Workflow Histories.Ĭhronicle started with the idea that the majority of tools today support undo functionality.
What you may not know is the history of how this tool came to be. Hopefully you've heard that Autodesk Screencast is a new tool that lets you capture your workflows, to easily create powerful and engaging learning materials.
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