Time quilt: scaling up zoomable photo browsers for large, unstructured photo collections Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:174680, abstract = {In the absence of manual organization of large digital photo collections, the photos ' visual content and creation dates can help support time-based visual search tasks. Current zoomable photo browsers are designed to support visual searches by maximizing screenspace usage. However, their space-filling layouts fail to convey temporal order effectively. We propose a novel layout called time quilt that trades off screenss-pace usage for better presentation of temporal order. In an experimental comparison of space-filling, linear timeline, and time quilt layouts, participants carried out the task of finding photos in their personal photo collections averaging 4,000 items. They performed 45\% faster on time quilt.Furthermore, while current zoomable photo browsers are designed for visual searches,this support does not scale to thousands of photos: individual thumbnails become less informative as they grow smaller. We found a subjective preference for the use of representative photos to provide an overview for visual searches in place of the diminishing thumbnails.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Huynh, David F. and Drucker, Steven M. and Baudisch, Patrick and Wong, Curtis}, booktitle = {CHI '05: CHI '05 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {174680}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1057061}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1056808.1057061}, doi = {10.1145/1056808.1057061}, isbn = {1595930027}, keywords = {hci, multimedia, ricardo, visual-information-seeking}, pages = {1937--1940}, posted-at = {2007-09-18 16:39:11}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM Press}, title = {Time quilt: scaling up zoomable photo browsers for large, unstructured photo collections}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1056808.1057061}, year = {2005} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:174680 L3 - citeulike-article-id:174680 N2 - In the absence of manual organization of large digital photo collections, the photos ' visual content and creation dates can help support time-based visual search tasks. Current zoomable photo browsers are designed to support visual searches by maximizing screenspace usage. However, their space-filling layouts fail to convey temporal order effectively. We propose a novel layout called time quilt that trades off screenss-pace usage for better presentation of temporal order. In an experimental comparison of space-filling, linear timeline, and time quilt layouts, participants carried out the task of finding photos in their personal photo collections averaging 4,000 items. They performed 45% faster on time quilt.Furthermore, while current zoomable photo browsers are designed for visual searches,this support does not scale to thousands of photos: individual thumbnails become less informative as they grow smaller. We found a subjective preference for the use of representative photos to provide an overview for visual searches in place of the diminishing thumbnails. SN - 1595930027 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 1940 TI - Time quilt: scaling up zoomable photo browsers for large, unstructured photo collections PB - ACM Press T2 - CHI '05: CHI '05 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems SP - 1937 KW - hci KW - multimedia KW - ricardo KW - visual-information-seeking AU - Huynh, David AU - Drucker, Steven AU - Baudisch, Patrick AU - Wong, Curtis PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1056808.1057061 ER -