{"id":317,"date":"2014-05-03T11:12:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T11:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=317"},"modified":"2021-11-17T11:18:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:18:10","slug":"pim-paper-fitchett-et-al-finder-highlights-field-evaluation-and-design-of-an-augmented-file-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"PIM paper: Fitchett et. al. &#8220;Finder highlights: field evaluation and design of an augmented file browser&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/dl.acm.org\/citation.cfm?id=2557014\">CHI 2014 paper by <strong class=\"moz-txt-star\">S Fitchett, A Cockburn, C Gutwin<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This idea looks very similar to what I proposed many years ago:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/whsFQfKOzx8\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nLeave my hiearchies alone &#8211; integrating file manager and search engine <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CmD5EJFl6b0\">&amp;amp;lt;span id=&amp;amp;quot;XinhaEditingPostion&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;\/span&amp;amp;gt;<\/iframe><br \/>\nFinder Highlights: Field Evaluation and Design of an Augmented File Browser <\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<p> <em>&quot;Navigating to files through a hierarchy is often a slow, laborious, and<br \/>\nrepetitive task. Recent lab studies showed that file browser interface<br \/>\naugmentations, such as Icon Highlights and Search Directed Navigation,<br \/>\nhave the potential to reduce file retrieval times. However, for this<br \/>\npotential to be realised in actual systems, further study is necessary<br \/>\nto address two important issues. First, there are important design and<br \/>\nimplementation challenges in advancing the research prototypes<br \/>\npreviously evaluated into complete interactive systems that can be used<br \/>\nfor real work. Second, it is unknown how real users would employ these<br \/>\nsystems while engaged in actual work; would the potential performance<br \/>\nimprovements suggested by the earlier lab studies be realised? We<br \/>\ntherefore describe the design, implementation, and longitudinal field<br \/>\nstudy evaluation of Finder Highlights, a file browser plugin for the OS X<br \/>\n &#8216;Finder&#8217; that adds support for Icon Highlights and Search Directed<br \/>\nNavigation. Study results confirm that the augmentations are effective<br \/>\nin reducing real-world file retrieval times, with retrieval times 13%<br \/>\nfaster when using Finder Highlights compared to the standard tool (10.6 s<br \/>\n versus 12.2 s), while also emphasising important differences between<br \/>\nlab and field studies. In summary, the paper strongly suggests that<br \/>\nlarge-scale deployment of interface augmentations to file browsers,<br \/>\nparticularly Icon Highlights, will have a marked effect in improving<br \/>\nusers&#8217; real-world file retrieval.&quot;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A CHI 2014 paper by S Fitchett, A Cockburn, C Gutwin This idea looks very similar to what I proposed many years ago: Leave my hiearchies alone &#8211; integrating file manager and search engine &amp;amp;lt;span id=&amp;amp;quot;XinhaEditingPostion&amp;amp;quot;&amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;lt;\/span&amp;amp;gt; Finder Highlights: Field Evaluation and Design of an Augmented File Browser Abstract: &quot;Navigating to files through a hierarchy is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}