@danprice

Yep, I agree. It reminds me of seeing demos of how we'll all supermarket shop in the future, by pushing virtual trolleys down virtual aisles and having to drag and drop items from the shelves into the trolley! What a PITA that would be. Modelling physical processes is rarely successful, the computer ought to be able to make things far more efficient than that.

Stacked Papers Are Expressive Of....

...the quality of disorganization naturally attending upon disorganized personal and organization-level working processes. So, they propose to codify that quality of essential disorganization, in an item of software? Are they that far beholden to analog process?

At the very least, it makes for an example of novel human-computer interface design - at some sort of an academic level, albeit - not necessarily practical, in that.

I can't believe it would be regarded as anything more than an academic "proof of concept", though. In that, at a conceptual level, perhaps it might serve as a fine example of cheesing-up the GUI in absence of an adequate data system design,

At the practical level, what it is? An item of software supporting a lot of novel actions for some three-dimensional document icons, and graphically rendering those icons in novel ways.

It begs the question: Why?