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From: georgerj@motcid.UUCP (Richard J. George)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: Thing ICON
Keywords: wanted - graphical representation for generic objects
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Date: 20 Jun 91 16:28:25 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!

When learning OOD we used an amorphous blob to indicate an object, which
is very simmilar to a thing.

RJG

>George Bray
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