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From: George.Bray@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (George Bray)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Thing ICON
Keywords: wanted - graphical representation for generic objects
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.111116.810@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU>
Date: 17 Jun 91 11:11:16 GMT
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Reply-To: George.Bray@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (George Bray)
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I need to refer to various types of objects in my interface.  Some of these
are people, places, times and ideas.

One of the representations I need is for a THING, a generic object. At best,
all I can think of is a hand coming out of a small wooden box, from the
Addams Family TV series.  This is hardly intuitive!


George Bray
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