TY - CONF
TI - An interview-based user study on the use of visualizations for folder
browsing
AU - Golemati, Maria
AU - Katifori, Akrivi
AU - Giannopoulou, Eugenia G. and
AU - Daradimos, Ilias
AU - Vassilakis, Costas
AU - Lepouras, George and
AU - Halatsis, Constantin
PY - 2008
SP - 106+
PB - IEEE Comput. Soc
T2 - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION VISUALISATION
TODO - 10.1109/IV.2008.90
TODO - file browser visualization; indented list visualization; user study;
windows explorer
TODO - Hierarchically structured data collections often need to be visualized
for the purposes of digital information management and presentation.
File browsing, in particular, has an inherent hierarchical structure and
plays an important role in the context of Personal Information
Management (PIM). A multitude of file browsers are nowadays available,
offering different functionalities, while users adopt diverse practices
and habits for browsing activities. In this paper, we investigate these
aspects to obtain insights into their advantages and disadvantages and
suggest solutions in the area of PIM, as well as in other domains
employing similar visualization paradigms. The presented study focuses
on the two most widespread visualizations used by file browsers, the
indented list and zoomable interface paradigms, and assesses their
effectiveness for various tasks and contexts, both by exploiting results
on existing evaluations on hierarchy visualizations and folder hierarchy
visualizations in particular, and by conducting an interview-based user
study.
ER -