VisuallDs: Automatic distinctive icons for desktop interfaces

ACM Transactions on Graphics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 416-423

  Lewis, J P ^a   Rosenholtz, Ruth ^b   Fong, Nickson ^c   Neumann, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ESC Entertainment ^*

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Pattern synthesis; Psychology

Indexed keywords

DATA LAYOUT; DATA TYPES; PATTERN SYNTHESIS; PSYCHOLOGY; DESKTOP INTERFACES; ICONS; SPATIAL ABILITIES;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COSTS; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; ALGORITHMS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 12844273410     PISSN: 07300301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1015706.1015739     Document Type: Conference Paper

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