Improving document icon to re-find efficiently what you need

Authors:
Changzhi Deng;Mingjun Zhou;Feng Tian;Guozhong Dai;Hong'an Wang
Affiliations:
Laboratory of Human-Computer Interaction & Intelligent Information Processing, Beijing, P.R. China;Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China;Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China;Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China;Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China
Venue:
HCI'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: interaction platforms and techniques
Year:
2007

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Abstract

It is common that documents are represented by document icon in graphical user interfaces. The document icon facilitates user to retrieve documents, but it is difficult to distinguish the document from a collection of documents that user have accessed to. Our paper presents a document icon on which the users can add some subjective values and mark. Then we describe a system ex-explorer that users can browser and search the extent document icon. We found that it is easy to re-find the document on which users added some annotation or mark by themselves.