Breaking out of the Shoebox: Towards Having Fun with Digital Images.

Kari Hardarson, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Bjorn Thor Jonsson, Reykjavik University, Iceland

The tremendous growth of personal digital image collections calls for new ways to access these images in a useful and interesting manner. We propose that such a browsing interface should combine features such as multi-dimensional pivoting and space travel-like exploration. This paper describes an image browsing prototype and our experience from using it with two different real-life data sets. Our conclusion is that while the prototype has shortcomings, this is a very promising research direction that merits further exploration.