@inproceedings{deline2006code,
author = {DeLIne, Robert and Czerwinski, Mary and Meyers, Brian and Venolia, Gina and Drucker, Steven and Robertson, George},
title = {Code Thumbnails: Using Spatial Memory to Navigate Source Code},
booktitle = {VLHCC '06: Proceedings of the Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing},
year = {2006},
month = {May},
abstract = {Modern development environments provide many features for navigating source code, yet recent studies show the developers still spend a tremendous amount of time just navigating. Since existing navigation features rely heavily on memorizing symbol names, we present a new design, called Code Thumbnails, intended to allow a developer to navigate source code by forming a spatial memory of it. To aid intra-file navigation, we add a thumbnail image of the file to the scrollbar, which makes any part of the file one click away. To aid interfile navigation, we provide a desktop of file thumbnail images, which make any part of any file one click away. We did a formative evaluation of the design with eleven experienced developers and present the results.},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
url = {http://approjects.co.za/?big=en-us/research/publication/code-thumbnails-using-spatial-memory-to-navigate-source-code/},
pages = {11–18},
isbn = {0-7695-2586-5},
edition = {VLHCC '06: Proceedings of the Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing},
}