Dorrit Billman
Eric A. Bier
ABSTRACT
Knowledge workers making sense of a topic divide their time among activities including searching for information, reading, and taking notes. We have built a software system that supports and integrates these activities. To test its effectiveness, we conducted a study where subjects used it to perform medical question-answering tasks. Initial results indicate that subjects could use the system, but that the nature of this use depended on the subject's overall question-answering strategy. Two dominant strategies emerged that we call the Reader and Searcher strategies.
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Digital Library
- Bier, E., Ishak, E., and Chi, E. Entity Workspace: an evidence file that aids memory, inference, and reading. Proceedings of Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2006), pp. 466--472, Springer-Verlag. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Teevan, J., Alvarado, C., Ackerman, M., and Karger, D. The perfect search engine is not enough: a study of orienteering behavior in directed search. Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2004), pp. 415--422. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Wright, W., Schroh, D., Proulx, P., Skaburskis, A., and Cort, B. The sandbox for analysis: concepts and evaluation. Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2006), pp. 801--810. Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- Medical sensemaking with entity workspace
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