Visualizing Computational Wear with Physical Wear

Wear is an important source of information supporting our tasks in everyday life. This paper presents the idea of using wear as a new visual attribute for visualizing the computational wear of digital objects, which is defined as a set of attributes resulting from the history of user interactions on the digital objects. As a case study to investigate the feasibility of the proposed idea, we succeeded in visualizing the computational wear of WWW sites with the icons of physically worn appearance.