- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 10:02:35 -0400
- To: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
At 02:10 AM 2003-04-25, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: >has anyone seen something similar to the following? or have a view. >for clarity to this audience this is a text version, we'll be using >graphics if we use it at all. > >Home | Media | Music | jazz | Pop | classic | soul | country I would think that you would want, especially in graphics for your audience, to show the change in the kind of connection. Some examples from the graphic layout of text would be Home Media Music jazz Pop classic soul country or Home >> Media >> Music ___________/ \__________ / \ jazz | Pop | classic | soul | country or Home >> Media >> Music >> jazz | Pop | classic | soul | country .. but the graphical metaphors are more like the middle one: how you show an expanded subset concurrently with the breadcrumb trail down to the scope of the expanded view. You want to distinguish parent:child connections from sibling:sibling connections in the graphical presentation of the topic graph. One common metaphor would be to take the version of "what is this person thinking" bubble from cartoon conventions, where the leader from the head of the person to the 'thought domain' bubble is a sequence of progressively larger (toward the final bubble) empty bubbles. That is to say you would represent Home with a most-shrunken icon, Media with a slightly larger version of its icon, Music with the largest scale of these icons, and the jazz, Pop, classic, soul and country icons would not be in a row but in a bubble with a border styling that terminates the sequence of the graded border stylings of the above size-progressive icons. Or wrap the ancestor-topic icons in bubble outlines that grade up to but resemble the final bubble outline. Al Al >the poker aspect allows the user to see what other topics are siblings >with the current one, which would be pop in this case, and reach them with >a single click. > >thanks > >Jonathan
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