4.5 Dashboard

Dashboard is the nexus. It is the central hub for tracking down everything that is happening with the projet. THe dashboard yields itself to an interaction :

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This interaction as outlined in the overview part of this section allows for a consistent navigation pattern to explore all of NCLVerse

Notifications

Will be displayed on the icons this mwould be enabled by using websockets since websockets would allow for doing realtime updates and is much better than AJAX for polling. From a user's perspective this means that they can at a glance get to know where the activity is happening and hence make an informed decision. The ordering of the apps are to be determined in the order of most recent notification. One of the short comings of this view is that only a limited amount of apps can be displayed using this style, even though this can be exteneded with the helpo fo arrows a better extensible pattern is to be formed when the number of applications increase beyond.

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Another approach was but this was escheewed in favour of the currevt interaction as it seemed like a good metaphorical fit for the student as an astronaut in space metaphor that was invoked earlier.