3D or not 3D? Evaluating the effect of the third dimension in a document management system

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 434-441

  Cockburn, Andy ^a   Mckenzie, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

3D user interfaces; Document management; Information visualisation; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

3D INTERFACE; 3D SYSTEMS; 3D USER INTERFACE; COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT; DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; RESEARCH SYSTEM; SPATIAL MEMORY; SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENTS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VISUALIZATION;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0035036595     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/365024.365309     Document Type: Conference Paper

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