Researchers need to keep up with immense literatures, though it is time-consuming and difficult to do so. In this paper, we investigate the role that intelligent interfaces can play in helping researchers skim papers, that is, rapidly reviewing a paper to attain a cursory understanding of its contents. After conducting formative interviews and a design probe, we suggest that skimming aids should aim to thread the needle of highlighting content that is simultaneously diverse, evenly-distributed, and important. We introduce Scim, a novel intelligent skimming interface that reifies this aim, designed to support the skimming process by highlighting salient paper contents to direct a skimmer's focus. Key to the design is that the highlights are faceted by content type, evenly-distributed across a paper, with a density configurable by readers at both the global and local level. We evaluate Scim with an in-lab usability study and deployment study, revealing how skimming aids can support readers throughout the skimming experience and yielding design considerations and tensions for the design of future intelligent skimming tools.
翻译:研究人员需要跟上大量的文献, 尽管这既耗时又难于做到。 在本文中, 我们调查智能界面在帮助研究人员滑雪论文方面可以发挥的作用, 即快速审查论文, 以获得对论文内容的草率理解。 在进行编造式访谈和设计探测后, 我们建议滑雪辅助工具应该着眼于将突出内容的针头串联起来, 突出内容既多样, 分布均匀, 也很重要。 我们引入了一个新颖的智能滑雪界面Scim, 使这个目标重新化, 目的是通过突出突出突出突出的纸面内容来引导滑雪过程。 设计的关键在于这些亮点由内容类型来面对, 均衡分布在纸面上, 由全球和地方两级的读者可以配置密度。 我们用一个在缩放过程中的可用性和部署研究来评估 Scim, 揭示滑雪辅助工具在滑雪过程中如何支持读者, 并为未来智能滑雪工具的设计提供设计上的考虑和紧张因素 。