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From: cah@cs.bham.ac.uk (Ceri Hopkins)
Newsgroups: comp.human-factors
Subject: Re: Thing ICON
Keywords: wanted - graphical representation for generic objects
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.172228.6850@cs.bham.ac.uk>
Date: 21 Jun 91 17:22:28 GMT
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In article <6646@opal1.UUCP> georgerj@motcid.UUCP (Richard J. George) writes:
> 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

How do you represent an amorphous blob?

Ceri

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Ceri Hopkins                                    
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