Data Mountain: Using Spatial Memory for Document Management
A document-management technique that places items at user-chosen positions on a tilted 3D surface.
Citation
Robertson, G., Czerwinski, M., Larson, K., Robbins, D. C., Thiel, D., & van Dantzich, M. (1998). Data Mountain: Using Spatial Memory for Document Management. Proceedings of the 11th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '98), 153–162.
Method
Iterative design and user study.
Claims used
- Spatial document placement exploits spatial memory and statistically outperformed Internet Explorer's Favorites list.
Extracted principles
- Stable positions improve re-findingNot tested
Items kept in stable, user-selected positions can be easier to find again than items in a list whose order changes.
Spatial UI