Title :
Icon abacus: positional display of document attributes
Author :
Perer, Adam ; Bier, Eric A.
Author_Institution :
Palo Alto Res. Center, Inc., CA
Abstract :
This paper presents icon abacus, a space-efficient technique for displaying document attributes by automatic positioning of document icons. It displays the value of an attribute by using position on a single axis, allowing the other axis to display different metadata simultaneously. The layout is stable enough to support navigation using spatial memory
Keywords :
document handling; graphical user interfaces; meta data; automatic document icon positioning; document attributes; icon abacus; metadata; navigation; positional display; spatial memory; Displays; Educational institutions; Layout; Navigation; Performance analysis; Permission; Strips; Switches; User interfaces; Visualization; computer-aided reading; metadata; spatial memory; visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Libraries, 2005. JCDL '05. Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
1-58113-876-8
DOI :
10.1145/1065385.1065452
