A "Pile" Metaphor for Supporting Casual Organization of Information

flekschas / piling.js

A general framework and library for exploring thousands of small multiples

https://piling.js.org

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A "Pile" Metaphor for Supporting Casual Organization of Information #15

Closed flekschas closed 4 years ago

flekschas commented 5 years ago

Mander et al., 1992, doi: https://doi.org/10.1145/142750.143055

Goals of the paper: Piles were seen as complementary to the folder filing system, which was used for more formal archiving. A new desktop interface element – the pile – was developed and prototype through an iterative process.

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High-level tasks:

Direct manipulation techniques
Automatic pile construction
Reorganization
Summarization
Sorting

flekschas commented 4 years ago

Closed. (This was use for the literature review)