Attention-reactive user interface for sensemaking

Abstract

I will talk about an emerging class of user interfaces that if not exactly intelligent are at least attention-reactive. They are being developed to handle "sensemaking" tasks, in which users find, analyze, and creation products or action from large collections of documents. Applications might be expected to develop in law, education, scholarship, security, and medicine. These interfaces have a focus + context visualization on the front end and a semantic contextual computing engine on the back end. Ultimately they can be expected to have mixed initiatives. These interfaces require the development of a supporting science of human information interaction that stresses interaction between the user and information and deemphasizes the platform through which this occurs.