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From: mig@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: Thing ICON
Keywords: wanted - graphical representation for generic objects
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Date: 20 Jun 91 21:44:06 GMT
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In article <2040@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>George.Bray@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (George Bray) writes:
>>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?

What do you mean?  How would you see it if it is invisible?  And how would you
distinguish it from a blank icon?

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