From Google to bookmarks, collections of information resources are
typically presented in a form which is impoverished for cognition and
experience: the list of textual elements.
We need to represent collections of information resources in
personal forms that help us discover connections between the resources.
combinFormation is a mixed-initiative tool for browsing and collecting,
which uses sampling and composition to make connections
between information resources visible.
combinFormation is
a mixed-initiative system that uses composition for
browsing, collecting, and arranging information samples from web
pages. The samples act as visual, semiotic, and navigational
surrogates for the documents from which they are extracted. The
initiatives are the system's generation of composition, and the user's
direct manipulation. The system's generative actions -- collecting
information samples, and composing them visually -- are conducted
iteratively, based on a user model. The system presents the ongoing
generation of the composition to the user in an interactive
information space. In this space, one of the user's initiatives is to
directly manipulate the composition through interactive design
operations, which enable samples to be displaced, layered, annotated,
and removed. The user can also express positive or negative interest
in each sample. Expressions of interest affect the model, creating a
feedback loop through the visualization.
publications
Webb, A. and Kerne, A.
The In-Context Slider: A Fluid Interface Component for Visualization and Adjustment of Values while Authoring,
Proceedings of ACM Advanced Visual Interfaces,
Napoli, Italy, 28-30 May 2008.
Koh, E., Kerne, A., Webb, A., Damaraju, S., Sturdivant, D.,
Generating Views of the Buzz: Browsing Popular Media and Authoring using Mixed-Initiative Composition,
Proceedings of ACM Multimedia,
Augsburg, Germany, 23-29 September 2007.
Kerne, A., Koh, E., Smith, S.M., Choi, H., Graeber, R., Webb., A.,
Promoting Emergence in Information Discovery by Representing Collections with Composition,
Proc ACM Creativity & Cognition,
Washington DC, June 2007, 117-126.
Koh, E., Caruso, D., Kerne, A., Gutierrez-Osuna, R.,
Elimination of Junk Document Surrogate Candidates through Pattern Recognition,
Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Document Engineering,
Winnipeg, Canada, 28-31 August 2007.
Kerne, A., Koh, E., Dworaczyk, B., Mistrot, J.M., Choi, H.,
Smith, S., Graeber, R., Caruso, D., Webb, A., Hill, R., Albea, J., A
Mixed-Initiative System for Representing Collections as Compositions of
Image and Text Surrogates,Proc Joint ACM/IEEE Conf. on Digital Libraries (JCDL), June 2006, Chapel Hill.
Kerne, A., Koh, E., Choi, H., Dworaczyk, B., Smith, S.M., Hill,
R., Albea, J., Supporting
Creative Learning Experience with Compositions of Image and Text
Surrogates, Proc Ed Media 2006, June 2006, Orlando.
Kerne, A., Koh, E., Sundaram, V., Mistrot, J.M.,
Generative
semantic clustering in spatial hypertext, Proc ACM Document
Engineering 2005,
Nov 2005, Bristol, UK, 84-93.
Kerne, A., Mistrot, J.M., Khandelwal,
M.,Sundaram, V., Koh, E., Using
Composition to Re-Present Personal Collections of Hypersigns, Proc
Computational Semiotics in Games and New Media (CoSIGN), Sept 2004,
Split, Croatia.
Kerne, A., Smith, S.M., Mistrot, J.M., Sundaram, V., Khandelwal, M., Wang, J., Mapping Interest and Design to Facilitate Creative Process During Mixed-Initiative Information Composition, Proc Interaction: Systems, Practice and Theory, a Creativity & Cognition Symposium, 2004, 1-25.
Kerne, A., Sundaram, V., A Recombinant Information Space, Proc Computational Semiotics in Games and New Media (CoSIGN) 2003, 48-57.
Karadkar, U.P., Kerne, A., Furuta, R., Francisco-Revilla, L., Shipman, F., Wang, J., Connecting Interface Metaphors to Support Creation of Hypermedia Collections, Proc European Conf Digital Libraries 2003, 338-349.
Kerne, A., Concept-Context-Design: A Creative Model for the Development of Interactivity. Proc ACM Creativity and Cognition 2002, 192-199.
Kerne, A., CollageMachine: Interest-Driven Browsing Through Streaming Collage. Proc Cast01: Living in Mixed Realities. Bonn, Germany, 241-244.
Kerne, A., CollageMachine: An Interactive Agent of Web Recombination, Leonardo 33:5, 2000.
Koh, E., Kerne, A., Hill, R.,
Creativity Support: Information Discovery and Exploratory Search,
Proceedings of ACM SIGIR Conference,
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 23-27 July 2007.
Kerne, A., Smith, S.M., Choi, H., Graeber, R., Caruso, D.,
Evaluating Navigational Surrogate Formats with Divergent Browsing Tasks, Proc ACM CHI 2005.
Khandelwal, M., Kerne, A., Mistrot, J.M., Manipulating History in Generative Hypermedia, Proc ACM Multimedia 2003, 139-140.
Kerne, A., Sundaram, V., Wang, J., Khandelwal, M., Mistrot, J.M., Human + Agent: Creating Recombinant Information, Proc ACM Multimedia 2003, 454-455.
Kerne, A., Khandelwal, M., Sundaram, V., Publishing Evolving Metadocuments on the Web. Proc ACM Hypertext 2003, 104-105.
Kerne, A., Open Processes Create Open Products: Interface Ecology As A Metadisciplinary Base For CollageMachine. Proc SIGGRAPH 2001: Abstracts and Applications, 239.
Kerne, A., CollageMachine: A Model of "Interface Ecology". NYU Ph.D. Dissertation. April 2001.
Kerne, A., CollageMachine: Temporality and Indeterminacy in Media Browsing via Interface Ecology. Proc CHI 1997: Extended, 297-298.
Koh, E., Kerne, A.,
combinFormation: Exploring Multiple Searches Together through the Mixed-Initiative Composition Space,
Proc ACM Computer Human Interaction 2007 Workshop on Exploratory Search and HCI,
San Jose, April 2007.