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Yaxi Chen, Michael Reiter, Andreas Butz
PhotoMagnets: Supporting Flexible Browsing and Searching in Photo Collections
To appear in Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI 2010, Beijing, China, November 8-12, 2010. ACM Press.

dynamic and unstructured, such as casual browsing and searching or loosely structured storytelling. User interfaces to support such an exploratory behavior are a challenging research question. We explore ways to enhance the flexibility in dealing with photo collections and designed a system named PhotoMagnets. It uses a magnet metaphor in addition to more traditional interface elements in order to support a flexible combination of structured and unstructured photo browsing and searching. In an evaluation we received positive feedback especially on the flexibility provided by this approach.