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Title: Have a say over what you see: evaluating interactive compression techniques
Authors: Simon Tucker, Steve Whittaker
Presentation Venue: IUI 2009: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces; February 8-11, 2009; Sanibel Island, Florida, USA
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While reading this paper, I could not help myself thinking about how useful a tool this software would be with all the HCI reading assignments we have had.
Areas of future study that the researchers mention include improving their algorithms and exploring other ways to determine which parts of the document are important. They also want to test their system on other types of documents.
This paper discusses Interactive Compression techniques that allow a user to remove information in documents they do not wish to see and making important information more visible.
Some of the different compression techniques explored are Word Excision(removing unimportant words by replacing them with periods), Utterance Excision(removing utterances and replacing them with white space), Highlighting Words(marking important words), Highlighting Utterances( marking important utterances), Keyword Context(use Utterance Excision but leave one word in place and grayed-out to let the user know the utterance is there), Fish-eye View(split the screen into five views that display certain things such as important words).
After an initial user study, the authors found that two most successful compression techniques were Word Excision and Word Highlighting. They performed another more in-depth study on these two specific techniques.
Their results showed that Word Excision and Word Highlighting allowed the users to extract the important information from documents more effectively even with the presence of an occasional error from the algorithm
Some of the different compression techniques explored are Word Excision(removing unimportant words by replacing them with periods), Utterance Excision(removing utterances and replacing them with white space), Highlighting Words(marking important words), Highlighting Utterances( marking important utterances), Keyword Context(use Utterance Excision but leave one word in place and grayed-out to let the user know the utterance is there), Fish-eye View(split the screen into five views that display certain things such as important words).
After an initial user study, the authors found that two most successful compression techniques were Word Excision and Word Highlighting. They performed another more in-depth study on these two specific techniques.
Their results showed that Word Excision and Word Highlighting allowed the users to extract the important information from documents more effectively even with the presence of an occasional error from the algorithm
Discussion
While reading this paper, I could not help myself thinking about how useful a tool this software would be with all the HCI reading assignments we have had.
Areas of future study that the researchers mention include improving their algorithms and exploring other ways to determine which parts of the document are important. They also want to test their system on other types of documents.
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