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Enhanced Thumbnails
Enhanced Thumbnails is a proprietary
visualization technique that makes it easier to
find relevant content quickly within documents and
document collections.
Possible applications:
- Database browsers
- Content and document
management portals
- Search engines
- Web or file browsers
- Code development
environments
- Any document viewing
or processing system
Benefits:
- Intuitive: Enables quick identification of relevant
documents based on density, position and relationship
of highlighted keywords
- Effective: Requires less effort than browsing
through plain text
- Scalable: Applies equally well to finding relevant
sections of a single document or rapidly scanning
large collections
PARC researchers have tested
Enhanced Thumbnails in several applications. Users
preferred Enhanced Thumbnails to alternative find-and-highlight
techniques.
Demo Applications
Web Search
Using Enhanced Thumbnail
for web search, study participants were able to
find information an average of 29% faster with Enhanced
Thumbnails than with text.
Try
our online demo to see the advantages of Enhanced
Thumbnails.
Web Browsing
The Popout Prism web browser
consists of:
- An Enhanced Thumbnail overview of the web page
(left side)
- A sliding window used as a scrollbar (dotted
rectangle on the overview)
- A full-size view of a web page that can be
enhanced with popouts (right side)
To download a free experimental
version of Popout Prism, visit downloads.parc.com.
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