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Our Project Reports

• Ben Shneiderman, Hyunmo Kang (July 2000)

Direct Annotation: A Drag-and-Drop Strategy for Labeling Photos
Proc. International Conference Information Visualisation (IV2000). London, England.
• Hyunmo Kang, Ben Shneiderman (August 2000)

Visualization Methods for Personal Photo Collections: Browsing and Searching in the PhotoFinder
Proc. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2000), New York City, New York.

Active Researchers

• Richard Chalfen, rchalfen@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu

Author of "Snapshot Versions of Life"
Professor of Anthropology, Temple University
http://nimbus.temple.edu/~rchalfen
• Abbe Don, abbe@abbedon.com

http://www.abbedon.com
Abbe Don Interactive, Inc.
Creator of "We Make Memories:
http://staging.abbedon.com/project/wemake.html
Stories about Interactive Storytelling (Nov. 1999)
http://staging.abbedon.com/philo/pcdseminar/
• Judith Donath, judith@media.mit.edu

MIT Media Lab
http://smg.www.media.mit.edu/people/judith/
• Allan Kuchinsky, kuchinsky@agilent.com

HP Agilent, worked on FotoFile
• Olivier Liechti, olivier@mic.atr.co.jp

http://www.mic.atr.co.jp/~olivier
ATR MIC Labs, Department 2
Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288
• Henry Lieberman, lieber@media.mit.edu

http://lieber.www.media.mit.edu/people/lieber/
• Roz Picard, MIT Media Lab, picard@media.mit.edu

Research in Video and Image Libraries: Browsing, Retrieval, Annotation
http://vismod.www.media.mit.edu/people/picard/res-diglib.html
Photobook
http://vismod.www.media.mit.edu/~tpminka/photobook/
• Fernanda Viegas, fviegas@media.mit.edu

MIT Media Lab Master's Thesis, "Collections"
http://www.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/collections/collections.pdf
• Gregory J. Wolff, wolff@rsv.ricoh.com

Created StoryTrack device to show photos and record stories
Ricoh Silicon Valley, Menlo Park, CA
http://rsv.ricoh.com/~wolff/

Related HCI Publications

• Combs, T., T.A., and Bederson, B. (February 1999)

Does Zooming Improve Image Browsing?
CS-TR-3995, UMIACS-TR-99-14
• Greene, S., Marchionini, G., Plaisant, C., Shneiderman, B. (1997)

Previews and Overviews in Digital Libraries: Designing Surrogates to Support Visual Information-Seeking
Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51, 3 (March 2000), 380-393.
CS-TR-3838, UMIACS-TR-97-73, ISR-TR-97-80
• Marchionini, G., Plaisant, C., Komlodi, A. (1998)

Interfaces and Tools for the Library of Congress National Digital Library Program
Information Processing & Management, 34, 5, pp. 535-555, 1998. Also French version appeared in Document numerique. 2(1), 1998, pages 53-65, Hermes, Paris.
CS-TR-3872 , UMIACS-TR-98-09, CLIS-TR-97-07
• North, C., Shneiderman, B., Plaisant, C. (October 1995)

User controlled overviews of an image library: A case study of the Visible Human
CS-TR-3550, CAR-TR-798, ISR-TR-95-99.
Proc. of the 1st ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries (Bethesda, MD, March 20-23, 1996) 74-82. ACM, New York. In addition a video "Browsing anatomical image databases: A case study of the Visible Human" appeared in CHI 96 Video Program with a two-page video summary in ACM CHI '96 Conference Companion (Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 13-18, 1996) 414-415, http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi96/proceedings. The video is also available from HCIL as part of the 1995 HCIL Video report.
• Plaisant, C., Carr, D., Shneiderman, B. (April 1994)

Image browsers: Taxonomy, guidelines, and informal specifications
IEEE Software, vol.12, 2 (March 1995) 21-32.
CS-TR-3282 , CAR-TR-712, ISR-TR-94-39
• John Lamping, Ramana Rao, and Peter Pirolli,

A Focus + Context Technique Based On Hyperbolic Geometry For Visualizing Large Hierarchies
Proceedings of ACM CHI95 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, 401-408, 1995.
• Ken Fishkin, Maureen C. Stone

Enhanced Dynamic queries via Movable Filters
Proc. ACM CHI95 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 415-420, May, 1995.
• Jia Li., Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman

Data Object and Label Placement for Information Abundant Visualizations
Workshop on New Paradigms in Information Visualization and Manipulation (NPIV'98), ACM, New York, 41-48, 1998.
• Ben Shneiderman

Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction 3^rd Edition
Addison Wesley Longman, Reading, MA, 1998.
• Andrew Sears and Ben Shneiderman

Split Menus: Effectively Using Selection Frequency To Organize Menus
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 1, 1, 27-51, 1994.
• J. Stewart, B. B. Bederson, & A. Druin

Single Display Groupware: A Model for Co-Present Collaboration
Proceedings of ACM CHI99 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 286-293, 1999.
• Jean-Daniel Fekete Catherine Plaisant

Excentric Labeling: Dynamic Neighborhood Labeling for Data Visualization
Proceedings of ACM CHI99 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 512-519, 1999.
• E. Imhof

Positioning Names on Maps
The American Cartographer, 2, 128-144, 1975.
• J. S. Doerschler and H. Freeman

A Rule-Based System For Dense-Map Name Placement
Communications Of The ACM 35, 1, 68-79, 1992.
• Mark D. Pritt

Method and Apparatus for The Placement of Annotations on A Display without Overlap
US Patent 5689717, 1997.
• Bill N. Schilit, Gene Golovchinsky, and Morgan N. Price

Beyond Paper: Supporting Active Reading with Free Form Digital Ink Annotations
Proceedings of ACM CHI 98 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, v.1 249-256, 1998.
• J Kelly Lee and Dana Whitney Wolcott

Method of Customer Photoprint Annotation
US Patent 5757466, 1998.
• J. Christensen, J. Marks, and S. Shieber

An Empirical Study Of Algorithms For Point-Feature Label Placement
ACM Transactions on Graphics 14, 3, 203-232, 1995.

Non-HCI Related Publications

Image Management

• Chalfen, Richard (1987)

Snapshot Versions of Life
Bowling Green State University Popular Press, Bowling Green, Ohio.
• Janet Abrams

Strategic outlook: double exposure
interactions 6, 6 (Nov.1999),  60 - 62.
http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/journals/interactions/1999-6-6/p60-abrams/
• Marko Balabanovic, Lonny L. Chu and Gregory J. Wolff

Storytelling with digital photographs
Proceedings of the CHI 2000 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2000), 564 - 571.
http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/proceedings/chi/332040/p564-balabanovicacute/
• Walter Gilbert

Caprina: wide access to digitized images for education
Proceedings of the 21st ACM SIGUCCS Conference on User Services (1993), 97-101.
http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/proceedings/userservices/263814/p97-gilbert/
• Allan Kuchinsky, Celine Pering, Michael L. Creech, Dennis Freeze, Bill Serra and Jacek Gwizdka

FotoFile: a consumer multimedia organization and retrieval system
Proceeding of the CHI 99 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (1999), 496-503.
http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/proceedings/chi/302979/p496-kuchinsky/
• Henry Lieberman, Elizabeth Rosenzweig, and Push Singh

An Agent for Integrated Annotation and Retrieval of Images (2000)
submitted.
• Olivier Liechti, Tadao Ichikawa

A Digital Photography Framework Supporting Social Interaction and Affective Awareness
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing (HUC'99), Karlsruhe, Germany, September 1999.
http://www.mic.atr.co.jp/~olivier/papers/liechti-kang-2.pdf
• R. W. Picard (1996)

A Society of Models for Video and Image Libraries
IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 35, Nos. 3 & 4, pp. 292-312, 1996.
• R. Chellappa, C.L. Wilson and S. Sirohey

Human and Machine Recognition of Faces: A Survey
Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 83, pp. 705-740, May 1995.

Query By Image Content

• AlpAslandogan, Y., Thier, C., Yu, C., Zou, J., Rishe, N. (1997)

Using semantic contents and WordNet in image retrieval
Proceedings of the 20th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval 286-295.
• Jacobs, C., Finkelstein, A., Salesin, D. (1995)

Fast multiresolution image querying
Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM conference on Computer graphics 277
• Lai, T., Tait, J. (1999)

CHROMA (demonstration abstract): A Content-Based Image Retrieval System
Proceedings on the 22nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 324.
• A. P. Pentland, R. W. Picard, and S. Sclaroff (1996)

Photobook: Content-based Manipulation of Image Databases
Int. Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 233-254, 1996.
ftp://whitechapel.media.mit.edu/pub/tech-reports/TR-255-ABSTRACT.html
• Rodden, K., Basalaj, W., Sinclair, D., Wood, K. (1999)

Evaluating a Visualization of Image Similarity as a Tool for Image Browsing
Proceedings on the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval, 36-43.

User Studies

• Garber, S., Grunes, M. (1992)

The Art of Search: A Study of Art Directors
Proceedings of ACM CHI'92 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 157-163.
• Jose, J., Furner, J., Harper, D.

Spatial Querying for Image Retrieval: A User-Oriented Evaluation
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR

Web Sites

• Automatic Face Recognition Research Links

http://www.cs.rug.nl/~peterkr/FACE/frhp.html
• IBM's Query by Image Content Research & Demos

http://wwwqbic.almaden.ibm.com/

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