Grad student Jack
Kustanowitz received the Best Student Paper Award at the ACM/IEEE
Joint
Conference on Digital Libraries, for this
work on photo layouts.
An additional paper relating to this work was published in
IEEE Multimedia (October 2006).
Project Description
| BRQLayer is an application designed to generate Bi-level Radial Quantum (BRQ) layouts, which consist of a primary region surrounded by any number of secondary regions (four, in the picture on the left). The thumbnails resize and the regions shift around dynamically as the layout is resized, and as the primary region is moved and/or sized. It is an extension of the Kaleidoscope described in the Snapshots project. |
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To get an overview of the project, watch the video describing the BRQLayer project (28MB), which was featured at the HCIL 22nd annual Symposium & Open House.
Several applications are envisioned for BRQLayer. For personal photo collections, it provides a way to show a primary image surrounded by groups of photos that are related to that photo:
BRQLayer could generate interesting "summary" composites that reflect a trip or other set of grouped photos, in this case a trip through Italy:
In a commercial setting, a web site could have a central region with a logo or selection criteria, surrounded by photos that reflect those criteria. For example, a real estate web site could have photos of homes in a given price range, grouped by location. The layout will dynamically resize and the thumbnails will grow as large as possible as the browser window is resized.
Finally, the primary region does not need to be in the center. Left- and corner- layouts could resemble these:
Other possibilities for extensions of this work include three-level hierarchies:
and non-quantum, continuous layouts:
For comments or questions about the BRQLayer project, email Jack Kustanowitz (jkustan at umd.edu).
Publications
Jack Kustanowitz & Ben Shneiderman. Meaningful Presentations of Photo Libraries: Rationale and Applications of Bi-Level Radial Quantum Layouts. Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, (June 2005), 188-196. Winner Best Student Paper Award.
Jack Kustanowitz & Ben Shneiderman. Hierarchical Layouts for Photo Libraries. IEEE MultiMedia 13, 4 (Oct-Dec 2006), 62-72. (on campus: [article] [abstract])
Jack Kustanowitz & Ben Shneiderman. Motivating Annotation for Personal Digital Photo Libraries: Lowering Barriers While Raising Incentives. University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab Tech Report (May 2004), HCIL-2004-18, CS-TR-4656, ISR-TR-2005-55.
Bibliography
A listing of HCIL and other photolibrary-related publications
Sponsors and Partners
Current research in this area was partially funded by Adobe Systems.
Related Sites
See http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/photos for other photo-related projects in HCIL at Maryland.
Last update: November 1, 2006.