1. Navigation and Discovery in 3D CAD Repositories.
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Pu, Jiantao, Kalyanaraman, Yagnanarayanan, Jayanti, Subramaniam, Ramani, Karthik, and Pizlo, Zygmunt
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COMPUTER user attitudes ,WEB browsers ,DATABASE searching ,THREE-dimensional imaging ,COMPUTER-aided design ,INFORMATION retrieval ,ACCESS to information ,IMAGE retrieval ,RECORDS management - Abstract
The article offers information on studies conducted in order to determine data-gathering behavior of computer users while browsing in 3-dimensional (3D) computer-aided design (CAD) repositories. One of the studies revealed that an appropriate mapping among the interface, the task, and the user can help in reducing mental workload. In the research, emphasis has been given on document or image retrieval. Experiments with computer users demonstrated that the 3D-navigation-based search pattern allows more rapid and accurate retrieval as compared to the traditional scroll-list pattern.
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- 2007
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