Icon abacus and ghost icons

ABSTRACT

We present two techniques that make document collection visualizations more informative. Icon abacus uses the horizontal position of icon groups to communicate document attributes. Ghost icons show linked documents by adding temporary icons and by highlighting or dimming existing ones.

References

1. Eric Bier, Lance Good, Kris Popat, and Alan Newberger. A document corpus browser for in-depth reading. Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2004, pp. 87--96.

Index Terms

• Applied computing

  • Computers in other domains

    • Digital libraries and archives

• Information systems

  • Information systems applications

    • Digital libraries and archives