CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)
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Ramana Rao
Xerox PARC The Information Grid: A Framework for Information Retrieval and Retrieval-Centered Applications January 6, 1993
The Information Grid (InfoGrid) is a framework for building information access applications that provides a user interface design and an interaction model. It focuses on retrieval of application objects as its top level mechanism for accessing user information, documents, or services. We have embodied the InfoGrid design in an object-oriented application framework that supports rapid construction of applications. This application framework has been used to build a number of applications, some that are classically characterized as information retrieval applications, others that are more typically viewed as personal work tools. This work was presented at the Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) '92 and is published in the proceedings. It was done in collaboration with PARC researchers Stuart Card, Herbert Jellinek, Jock Mackinlay, and George Robertson. In addition to presenting the Infogrid work, I will step back and present a broader survey of ideas and related work on the role of retrieval in the user interface of computer workspaces and discuss future areas of interest. |
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