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From: warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: Thing ICON
Keywords: wanted - graphical representation for generic objects
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Date: 20 Jun 91 06:28:55 GMT
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George.Bray@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (George Bray) writes:

>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!

Why not a totally blank icon?
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