ASSIGNMENT 5: SCREEN SHOTS AND WALKTHROUGH

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A full screen shot of the main screen of PhotoCat: Time Range has been set to "Month," Location and Friends are defaulted to "all" and the time period has been set to September 2004. Unique to the screen is that it shows the clustering and burst activity typical to a user: all of the pictures in this month are from sailing trips. As shown here, you can see that this user typically went sailing on a weekend--Saturday or Sunday--during the middle part of the day, and took multiple bursts of photos during that time. The use of the rollover reveals photos that at first appear to be "buried" in the middle of the stack, enabling them to be clicked and placed in the photo bin.

 

Another month view--June 2004: We will walk through what happens as we focus in and narrow the time range.

 

Here, we've adjusted the parameters of the June 2004 month display to show the week range of June 19-25. The display refreshes to show these pictures. The bin still retains photos from the previous screen; bin photos are not lost when the bullseye filter parameters are changed.

 

Focusing on a a day view from the previously displayed week results in this display. Note that PhotoCat employs a scattering algorithm so that when bands dynamically increase in width, more of the thumbnails may be revealed, allowing for easier browsing capabilities.

 

In combination with the Friends filter, we further focus the display to show pictures that only include Jake as being co-present at the time of capture.

 

Next, we'll walkthrough the screens and actions that take place when we work with photos in the Photo Bin.

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