The information discovery research area develops and validates
theories about what goes on in the mind and body as human beings work
and play with information.
Human beings engage in information processing with
digital systems.
This cyborg conjunction experiences a series of states and
transformations.
The information discovery framework addresses these states and
conjunctions by integrating the creative
cognition approach with human computer interaction and
information seeking.
We are particularly interested in how needs, desires, and goals may
evolve during the course of a creative process.
We shift the focus in the evaluation of
information discovery systems from
convergent thinking tasks (those with a single answer) to divergent
thinking tasks (those with multiple answers).
Our meta-hypothesis is that by understanding how cognition works in
the context of
interactive information, we can gain insight into how to build more
valuable environments.
publications
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., Kerne, A.,
I Keep Collecting: College Students Build
and Utilize Collections in Spite of Breakdowns, Proc European Conf
on Digital Libraries (ECDL), Sept 2006, Alicante, Spain.
Kerne, A., Smith, S.M., Choi, H., Graeber, R., Caruso, D.,
Evaluating Navigational Surrogate Formats with Divergent Browsing Tasks, Proc ACM CHI 2005.
Kerne, A., Smith, S.M.,
The Information Discovery Framework.
Proc ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2004, 357-360.