FOLDER3D: A graphical file management system supporting visualisation of file relationships

Saturnino Luz; Bill Rogers; Masood Masoodian; Simon De Schutter

FOLDER3D: A graphical file management system supporting visualisation of file relationships

Saturnino Luz^*, Bill Rogers, Masood Masoodian, Simon De Schutter

^*Corresponding author for this work

Not published at Aalto University

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Abstract

The desktop metaphor with its hierarchical structure of folders is the basis of almost all graphical file management systems. Despite this popularity, these systems suffer from several problems, including the restrictiveness of the single inheritance structure of hierarchical file management. Although various alternative systems have been proposed, none of these have gained popularity. We argue that the reason for this failure is that these systems have generally proposed complete alternatives to the hierarchical system, thus ignoring many of its positive aspects. In this paper we describe a 3D graphical file management which complements conventional 2D hierarchical folder structures by allowing visualisation of alternative file relationships.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IMAGAPP 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2010 - Proc. Int. Conf. Information Visualization Theory and Applications
Pages	149-152
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 2010
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications - Angers, France Duration: 17 May 2010 → 21 May 2010 Conference number: 2

Publication series

Name	IMAGAPP 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2010 - Proc. Int. Conf. Information Visualization Theory and Applications

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications
Abbreviated title	IMAGAPP
Country	France
City	Angers
Period	17/05/2010 → 21/05/2010

Keywords

3D user interfaces
File management systems
File relationships
Hierarchical folders
Information visualisation
Virtual folders
Window management systems

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Luz, S., Rogers, B., Masoodian, M., & De Schutter, S. (2010). FOLDER3D: A graphical file management system supporting visualisation of file relationships. In IMAGAPP 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2010 - Proc. Int. Conf. Information Visualization Theory and Applications (pp. 149-152). (IMAGAPP 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2010 - Proc. Int. Conf. Information Visualization Theory and Applications).

Luz, Saturnino ; Rogers, Bill ; Masoodian, Masood ; De Schutter, Simon. / FOLDER3D : A graphical file management system supporting visualisation of file relationships. IMAGAPP 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2010 - Proc. Int. Conf. Information Visualization Theory and Applications. 2010. pp. 149-152 (IMAGAPP 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2010 - Proc. Int. Conf. Information Visualization Theory and Applications).

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Luz, S, Rogers, B, Masoodian, M & De Schutter, S 2010, FOLDER3D: A graphical file management system supporting visualisation of file relationships. in IMAGAPP 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2010 - Proc. Int. Conf. Information Visualization Theory and Applications. IMAGAPP 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2010 - Proc. Int. Conf. Information Visualization Theory and Applications, pp. 149-152, International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications, Angers, France, 17/05/2010.

FOLDER3D : A graphical file management system supporting visualisation of file relationships. / Luz, Saturnino; Rogers, Bill; Masoodian, Masood; De Schutter, Simon.

IMAGAPP 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2010 - Proc. Int. Conf. Information Visualization Theory and Applications. 2010. p. 149-152 (IMAGAPP 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2010 - Proc. Int. Conf. Information Visualization Theory and Applications).

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Luz S, Rogers B, Masoodian M, De Schutter S. FOLDER3D: A graphical file management system supporting visualisation of file relationships. In IMAGAPP 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2010 - Proc. Int. Conf. Information Visualization Theory and Applications. 2010. p. 149-152. (IMAGAPP 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Theory and Applications, IVAPP 2010 - Proc. Int. Conf. Information Visualization Theory and Applications).