Acknowledgements

Browsing Icons is designed and implemented by Matthias Mayer at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

This work was improved during three months at the HCI-Lab at the University of Maryland in 2001. Fruitful discussions have contributed to the current design and results. Thanks to all the HCI-Lab members, especially to Ben Bederson, Ben Shneiderman, Catherine Plaisant, Harry Hochheiser, Anita Komlodi and Anne Rose.

The HCIL visit was enabled by the generous support from the Computer Science Department of the University of Hamburg, the Hansische Universitätsstiftung, as well as the HCIL at the University of Maryland.

We further acknowledge the vital collaboration with our colleagues working on the Scone proxy at the Computer Science Department of the University of Hamburg, Harald Weinreich and Volkert Buchmann as well as the professional and immediate Jazz support provided by Jesse Grosjean and Lance Good at the University of Maryland. The IESpy Tool to connect to MS Internet Explorer was developed ba Hartmut Obendorf and Torsten Hass.

Cooperation Partners

Prof. Dr. Peter Schefe	Doctoral Father
Ben Bederson	Second Advisor of this dissertation. Author of Jazz.
Jesse Grosjean	Developer of Jazz.
Lance Good	Developer of Jazz.
Harald Weinreich	Developer and project admin of Scone.
Torsten Hass	Codeveloper of Scone and IESpy.
Volkert Buchmann	Codeveloper of Scone.
Hartmut Obendorf	Developer of IESpy.
Tools
Jazz	The Java Graphics Framework developed by Ben Bederson, Jesse Grosjean, Lance Good et. al. at the HCI-Lab at the University of Maryland.
Scone	A framework for quick development and evaluation of new web enhancements for research and educational purposes, developed by Harald Weinreich, Volkert Buchmann, Torsten Hass et. al. at the University of Hamburg (Faculty of Informatics).
IESpy	A tool that delivers MS Internet Explorer events to Java applications, developed by Hartmut Obendorf and Torsten Hass at the University of Hamburg (Faculty of Informatics).