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User interactions with everyday applications as context for just-in-time information access

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Kristian J. HammondAuthors Info & Claims

IUI '00: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

Pages 44 - 51

https://doi.org/10.1145/325737.325776

Published: 09 January 2000 Publication History

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Our central claim is that user interactions with everyday productivity applications (e.g., word processors, Web browsers, etc.) provide rich contextual information that can be leveraged to support just-in-time access to task-relevant information. We discuss the requirements for such systems, and develop a general architecture for systems of this type. As evidence for our claim, we present Watson, a system which gathers contextual information in the form of the text of the document the user is manipulating in order to proactively retrieve documents from distributed information repositories. We close by describing the results of several experiments with Watson, which show it consistently provides useful information to its users.

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User interactions with everyday applications as context for just-in-time information access
1. Computing methodologies
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2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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