Icon abacus: positional display of document attributes

  • Authors:
  • Eric A. Bier;Adam Perer

  • Affiliations:
  • Palo Alto Research Center, Inc., Palo Alto, CA;University of Maryland, College Park, MD

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
  • Year:
  • 2005

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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.