Direct annotation: a drag-and-drop strategy for labeling photos

Author

Shneiderman, Ben ; Kang, Hyunmo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

88

Lastpage

95

Abstract

Annotating photographs is such a time-consuming, tedious and error-prone data entry task that it discourages most owners of personal photo libraries. By allowing the user to drag labels, such as personal names, from a scrolling list and drop them onto a photo, we believe we can make the task faster, easier and more appealing. Since the names are entered in a database, searching for all photos of a friend or family member is dramatically simplified. We describe the user interface design and the database schema to support direct annotation, as implemented in our PhotoFinder prototype

Keywords

database indexing; digital libraries; graphical user interfaces; hobby computing; personal information systems; photography; visual databases; PhotoFinder prototype; database schema; direct annotation; direct manipulation; drag-and-drop strategy; graphical user interface; image searching; label placement; personal names database; photograph labelling; photographic libraries; scrolling list; user interface design; Biomedical imaging; Cities and towns; Computer errors; Computer science; Databases; Educational institutions; History; Labeling; Laboratories; Libraries;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Visualization, 2000. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

1093-9547

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0743-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IV.2000.859742

Filename

859742