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Who's Zooming Whom? Attunement to Animation in the Interface.

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Chui, Michael; Dillon, Andrew – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1997

Two controlled experiments examined whether the animated zooming effect accompanying the opening or closing of a folder in the Apple Macintosh graphical user interface aids in the user's perception of which window corresponds to which folder. Results suggest users may become attuned to the informational content of the zooming effect with…

Descriptors: Animation, Computer Graphics, Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design

Design and Evaluation of a User Interface Supporting Multiple Image Query Models.

Mostafa, Javed; Dillon, Andrew – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1996

Describes the ViewFinder interface, designed at Indiana University as a client to a database server; it supports querying based on both visual and verbal clues. Presents results of usability analysis performed on ViewFinder with 18 users. High search success rates were achieved through both types of querying means; verbal clues were used more than…

Descriptors: Computer Interfaces, Computer System Design, Information Retrieval, Information Seeking