Comparison of Photo Library Programs

Authors:

Iris Cho - iycho@wam.umd.edu
Sean Holman - sholman@wam.umd.edu
Robert Phelps - phelpsrw@wam.umd.edu

Abstract

As technology advances in digital cameras, scanners, and electronic storage devices, digital photography has become a method of keeping photos. Digital photo libraries are needed to provide organization, presentation, and navigation of these photos. In our experiment, we compare three photo libraries: ACDSee, PhotoFinder, and PhotoSuite III. We compare the three in terms of easibility in locating pictures within the photo collections.

We hypothesized that the three main frame design of PhotoFinder would help in the easibility of locating pictures. We believed that users would not only finish the tasks quicker using PhotoFinder, but we also believed that users would have a higher subjective satisfaction of PhotoFinder. Through this study, we did find that users finished tasks more quickly using PhotoFinder.

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