INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACES FOR DATA SHARING AND DOCUMENTATIONAdam Eck, Biofinity Project October 19, 2011

TDWG 2011

Motivation

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Address roadblocks between disjoint data and backgrounds Understanding relationships Sharing data in a meaningful way Forming common knowledge

Advanced user support Enhance end-user experience and

productivity System actively works for users

Approach

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Promote collaboration Sharing data, ideas, and information

between users Work together to conduct research

Intelligent user interface Recommend activities, articles, data Summarize existing content Learn from user activities

Biofinity Intelligent Wiki

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Content management system Annotations and documentation Related information

Collaborative writing tool Project management Experiment design Shared lab notebook Discussions

Features | Wiki Functionality

5• View page content contributed by users

• Rich text WYSIWYG editing (titles and content)

• Viewable page revision history• Compare differences between

revisions

• Attach additional media files(images, video, PDFs)

• Thumbnails (for images)

• Browse existing pages• Tracks recently viewed/edited

pages• Search by title, content, authors,

keywords• Compare differences between

revisions

Features | Advanced Collaboration

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• Evaluate page quality

• Discover user interests

• Summarize key concepts

• Organize content• Discover user

expertise

• User attribution

• Share articles/ideas between users

• Help users navigate• Coordinate activities

• Suggest improvements to pages

• Resolve disputes

Features | Intelligent Support

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Automated Recommendations Choose pages for users to view Based on ratings given by other users

Target high quality pages Find similarity in users

User Modeling Sessions, Activities

Page Modeling Content, Tags, Activity

Biofinity Integration

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Connect data in Biofinity DBs with Wiki pages

Allow users to input additional information Annotations Documentation

Supply related information Background concepts

Easy to navigate back and forth Links from data and wiki pages

Biofinity Integration

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Deployment | Classroom Use

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Goal: augment classroom topics with user supplied content

Students provide pages on topics not covered during lectures

Increase breadth of topics Students collaborate on each other’s

pages Encourage discussions Encourage exchange of ideas Encourage summarization

Deployment | Duckweed Project

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Goal: Build a journal from student projects Reuse across semesters Hands-on training in scientific method

Students work in groups on evolution lab Run experiments on duckweed

Write a collaborative report based on findings

Cite previous projects Retained for future classes

Future Work| Features

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Enhanced recommendations Pages to view Pages to edit Content to include

User matchmaking Encourage collaboration

Future Work| Features

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Intelligent information gathering Find information for users

Search Biofinity databases Search external sources

NCBI, GBIF, PubMed

Summarization Extract key content from pages

Better user modeling More active and in-depth Avoid frustration

Questions

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