Using 3d landscapes to navigate file systems: The mountain view interface

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualization

Volumn 8, Issue , 2004, Pages 645-649

  Altom, Tim ^a   Buher, Melynda ^a   Downey, Michael ^a   Faiola, Anthony ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

3d user interfaces; Navigation; Spatial memory

Indexed keywords

3D USER INTERFACES; FILE NAVIGATION; FILE SYSTEMS; SPATIAL MEMORY;

GAME THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; USER INTERFACES; WEBSITES;

FILE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 4644349574     PISSN: 10939547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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