Automatic icons organize files.
TRN Newswire, September, 2004
TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH NEWS
By Kimberly Patch - Everyone knows it is more difficult to memorize a set of facts or words than a set of pictures. Everyone also knows it is way too easy to misplace files on a computer.
Researchers from the University of Southern California, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and ESC Entertainment are aiming to improve the lost-in-cyberspace problem with a tool designed to tap people's facility with pictures.
The system, dubbed VisualID, automatically generates detailed icons for specific files. It assigns similar icons to related files by mutating the original icon in a series. The degree of mutation depends on the degree of similarity of the file names, which gives the user an approximate visual sense...
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