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COSIT
1999
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Pictorial and Verbal Tools for Conveying Routes
Traditionally, depictions and descriptions have been seen as complementary; depictions have been preferred to convey iconic or metaphorically iconic information whereas description...
Barbara Tversky, Paul U. Lee
HCI
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Conveying Browsing Context Through Audio on Digital Talking Books
This paper presents the results of a study comparing the use of auditory icons, earcons and speech in an audio only interface for a digital talking book player. The different techn...
Carlos Duarte, Luís Carriço
GIS
2006
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Efficient position-independent iconic search using an R-theta index
An iconic image database is a collection of symbolic images where each image is a collection of labeled point features called icons. A method is presented to support fast position...
Charles Ben Cranston, Hanan Samet
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Tactile crescendos and sforzandos: applying musical techniques to tactile icon design
Tactile icons (Tactons) are structured vibrotactile messages which can be used for non visual information display. Information is encoded in Tactons by manipulating vibrotactile p...
Lorna M. Brown, Stephen A. Brewster, Helen C. Purc...
ICIP
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Optimal Display Adaptation of Iconic Document Visualizations via BFOS-Style Tree Pruning
This paper introduces a new visual representation of a document or group of documents, a Dynamic Document Icon, or Dydocon. Its representation is symbolic like an icon, but change...
Kathrin Berkner, Michael J. Gormish