Direct annotation: a drag-and-drop strategy for labeling photos
| Title | Direct annotation: a drag-and-drop strategy for labeling photos |
| Publication Type | Conference Papers |
| Year of Publication | 2000 |
| Authors | Shneiderman B, Kang H |
| Conference Name | IEEE International Conference on Information Visualization, 2000. Proceedings |
| Date Published | 2000/// |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| ISBN Number | 0-7695-0743-3 |
| Keywords | Biomedical imaging, Cities and towns, Computer errors, Computer science, database indexing, database schema, Databases, digital libraries, direct annotation, direct manipulation, drag-and-drop strategy, Educational institutions, graphical user interface, Graphical user interfaces, History, hobby computing, image searching, label placement, Labeling, Laboratories, Libraries, personal information systems, personal names database, PhotoFinder prototype, photograph labelling, photographic libraries, Photography, scrolling list, user interface design, visual databases |
| Abstract | Annotating photographs is such a time-consuming, tedious and error-prone data entry task that it discourages most owners of personal photo libraries. By allowing the user to drag labels, such as personal names, from a scrolling list and drop them onto a photo, we believe we can make the task faster, easier and more appealing. Since the names are entered in a database, searching for all photos of a friend or family member is dramatically simplified. We describe the user interface design and the database schema to support direct annotation, as implemented in our PhotoFinder prototype |
| DOI | 10.1109/IV.2000.859742 |