Icon abacus: positional display of document attributes

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.

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Index Terms

• Applied computing

  • Computers in other domains

    • Digital libraries and archives

• Human-centered computing

  • Human computer interaction (HCI)

    • Interaction paradigms

      • Graphical user interfaces

• Information systems

  • Information systems applications

    • Digital libraries and archives