Pictorial Navigation Aids for Electronic Picture Displays on Digital Cameras

Many of today's digital cameras allow the user to review the pictures they have captured on an LCD on the back of the camera. These cameras are capable of storing numerous pictures which the user may navigate through to share ideas, concepts, or memories with others. In this paper we present two graphical user interface concepts that were designed to provide navigation aids on Kodak digital cameras. A study is described which utilized prototypes to test the concepts before they were implemented into a product. This usability study allowed the designers to select optimal parameters for these navigation aids, including recommended picture sizes and the number of pictures to be displayed within a navigation aid that is based on a film strip metaphor.