NDLI: combinFormation: Mixed-initiative composition of image and text surrogates promotes information discovery

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Koh, Eunyee Dworaczyk, Blake Webb, Andrew Kerne, Andruid Smith, Steven M.
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	combinFormation is a mixed-initiative creativity support tool for searching, browsing, organizing, and integrating information. Images and text are connected to represent surrogates (enhanced bookmarks), optimizing the use of human cognitive facilities. Composition, an alternative to lists and spatial hypertext, is used to represent a collection of surrogates as a connected whole, using principles from art and design. This facilitates the creative process of information discovery, in which humans develop new ideas while finding and collecting information. To provoke the user to think about the large space of potentially relevant information resources, a generative agent proactively engages in collecting information resources, forming image and text surrogates, and composing them visually. The agent develops the collection and its visual representation over time, enabling the user to see ideas and relationships. To keep the human in control, we develop interactive mechanisms for authoring the composition and directing the agent. In a field study in an interdisciplinary course on The Design Process, over a hundred students alternated using combinFormation and Google+Word to collect prior work on information discovery invention assignments. The students that used combinFormation's mixed-initiative composition of image and text surrogates performed better.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	45
Page Count	45
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10468188
e-ISSN	15582868
DOI	10.1145/1416950.1416955
Volume Number	27
Issue Number	1
Journal	ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2008-12-23
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Creativity support tools Clustering Collections Creative cognition Exploratory search Field study Focused crawler Information discovery Mixed-initiative systems Relevance feedback Semantics Software agents
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Science Applications Information Systems Business, Management and Accounting

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