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From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (Giving C News a *HUG*)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: Thing ICON
Keywords: wanted - graphical representation for generic objects
Message-ID: <a7ew48w164w@mantis.co.uk>
Date: 21 Jun 91 15:50:09 GMT
References: <1991Jun21.013815.6920@cse.uta.edu>
Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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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!

Try this:

Microsoft Windows icon:

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mathew
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