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From: jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor (How about maps?)
Keywords: metaphor, user interfaces, computing environments, maps
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Date: 1 Jan 89 02:21:05 GMT
References: <850@mtfmi.att.com>, <673@cogsci.ucsd.EDU> <851@mtfmi.att.com>
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In-reply-to: mel@mtfmi.att.com (M.HAAS)

In article <851@mtfmi.att.com>, mel@mtfmi (M.HAAS) writes:
>Would it be worthwhile to investigate mapping techniques, notations,
>names, and symbols for the user interface to computer systems?

See Edward Tufte: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
Good displays are well understood, and by Tufte, well described.

It doesn't matter whether they're on screens or paper.

What matters is what they show us that wouldn't be as clear from other
kinds of presentation, such as verbal or tabular.

-- Jon
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