Development and Evaluation of Visualization System of File Directory Structure Available on the Network
Hidenobu Tsurusawa, Kazuhiro Takeda, Shigeru Nakayama · IEEJ Transactions on Electronics Information and Systems · 2002
In order to improve man machine interface, graphical user interface is adapted rather than character base interface, and two dimensional icons are employed as picture characters that are visually easy to understand. File directory structures are shown as two-dimensional tree structures. It is considered that three-dimensional demonstration is more desirable like the real world, and then man will be able to understand it intuitively by look-and-feel. However, such three-dimensional demonstration has not been popularly used. In this system, we have developed a building tool of three-dimensional icon, and a file viewer with the three-dimensional tree structure. The system indicates file configuration and file content more visually. We have made them transferable on the network by using object serialization, and then the three-dimensional file directory structure of a remote host computer on the network can be displayed. Furthermore, we have evaluated the sytem and then obatained a good evaluation result.