Using New Clues to Find Data.
Craig Fields, Nicholas Negroponte:
Using New Clues to Find Data.
VLDB 1977: 156-158@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/FieldsN77,
author = {Craig Fields and
Nicholas Negroponte},
title = {Using New Clues to Find Data},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Very Large
Data Bases, October 6-8, 1977, Tokyo, Japan},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
year = {1977},
pages = {156-158},
ee = {db/conf/vldb/FieldsN77.html},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/vldb/77},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
Abstract
Conventional date base management systems use symbolic clues to retrieve data--descriptions of
the name, source or contents of data. A new data base management system also allows retrieval
of information using spatial clues--where the data is located in the data base management system
--and iconic clues--how the data looks. Information is displayed in a simulated space through
which users can "fly" in search of data, much as people store and retrieve information from particular places in their offices e.g. , specific places on a bookshelf, specific piles of paper on
a table, specific places within a filing cabinet. Exploiting the power of human spatial memory,
the new system has the significant advantage of allowing the location of information when it
cannot be precisely specified e.g., getting near information and browsing through information.
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Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE).
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