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Dominikus Baur
Informed Browsing of Digital Image Collections
Diploma Thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Germany), 2007 (bib)

The proliferation of digital cameras and their low operating costs lead to an abundance of digital photos that are not only laborious to organize but also lack the tangibility of their physical counterparts. Informed Browsing tries to ease the organization of a large media collection by applying automatic analysis methods. Tabletop displays allow for a more direct handling of virtual objects and facilitate multi-user interaction and communication. In the course of my diploma thesis I developed and implemented an application, flux, that takes concepts from Informed Browsing and puts them in a tabletop interface to combine a convenient, physical treatment of photos with the advantages of digital information: manipulability and easier organization. This work presents the basic motivation, the idea of Informed Browsing and its roots in the photowork process, related work in the same field, the design process with multiple iterations and user feedback in form of a focus group and the implementation with selected aspects and the hardware and technology side.