Authors:
Akiko Takahashi
and
Katsumi Tanaka
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Informatics and Kyoto University, Japan
Keyword(s):
Personal Information Management, Storytelling, Narrative, Human Computer Interaction, Interface Design.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Data Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Management
;
Multimedia and User Interfaces
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Usability and Ergonomics
;
User Modeling
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
Abstract:
In our previous work, we introduced a web application named “Kcanvas” and how users received it. Kcanvas provides a huge canvas as a playful interface so that users can intuitively manage fragments of information that they are interested in in their everyday life in a casual manner. Subsequently we had face-to-face user observation sessions to get to know users better. The participants not only enjoyed composing their own can- vases but also willingly told their stories of personal interest hopping on fragments of information on their canvases, while they hesitated to make their canvases public. Throughout the user observation sessions, we are convinced ourselves stronger that storytelling will be a key to organize one’s daily fragments of information and there is a need to take care layers in one’s personal information space: a private layer for one’s fragments of bare interest and a public layer for sharing stories. In this paper, based on the findings from the user observation ses
sions, we explain a mental model towards personal information, redefine the structure of personal information space based on the mental model, and introduce Kcanvas’ newly added and enhanced functions for storytelling.
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