CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)
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Michelle Wang Baldonado
Stanford Computer Science (Digital Library Project) SenseMaker: An Information-Exploration Interface April 25, 1997
SenseMaker is an interface for exploring information from multiple, heterogeneous sources. Information exploration takes place when a user is looking for new information within a defined conceptual area. This overarching area could be at any level of granularity. It could be as broad as "software design" or as narrow as "the VisiCalc interface." An important characteristic of information exploration is that the user's interests evolve during the course of the task. In this talk, I will describe how SenseMaker supports this contextual evolution of a user's interests by: (1) approximating the current information context as the current collection of accumulated information references, and (2) providing a unified set of user-centered actions for examining the current context, for progressing from one context to the next, and for returning to previous contexts. |
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