Dynamic Layout Management in a Multimedia Bulletin Board
Dynamic Layout Management in a Multimedia Bulletin Board
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2003-01-21
Authors
Kang, Hyunmo
Shneiderman, Ben
Wolff, Gregory J.
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Abstract
This paper proposes a novel user interface to manage the dynamic layout of
multimedia objects in the Multimedia Bulletin Board (MBB) system. The MBB has
been designed and implemented as a prototype of an asynchronous communication
system that enables rich communication and collaboration among users of
multimedia objects such as text, image, moving picture, sound, voice, web,
office document, and other files. The layout properties of the multimedia
objects on a board (e.g. x-y position, size, z-order, partial occlusion,
explicit and implicit links, etc.) show important and useful information on the
user dynamics occurring within a board. However, a fixed layout created and
edited by multiple users may prevent users from recognizing and identifying
useful information. This paper resolves this problem with a novel
user-controlled layout strategy made visible with dynamic layout templates
(DLT). Users can reorganize the objects to extract meaningful information
related to time, source, geographic location, or topic.
(UMIACS-TR-2002-26)
(HCIL-TR-2002-04)