An Experimental Method for Measuring the Emergence of New Ideas in Information Discovery Export

@article{citeulike:3206822, abstract = {Although sometimes the task that motivates searching, browsing, and collecting information resources is finding a particular fact, humans often use information resources in intellectual and creative tasks that can include comparison, understanding, and discovery. <i>Information discovery tasks</i> involve not only finding relevant information but also seeing relationships among collected information resources and developing new ideas. The hypothesis presented here is that how information is represented impacts the magnitude of human creativity in information discovery tasks. How can we measure this creative cognition? Studies of search have focused on time and accuracy, metrics of limited value for measuring creative discovery. A new experimental method is developed, which measures the <i>emergence of new ideas</i> in information discovery, to evaluate the efficacy of representations. The efficacy of the typical textual list representation for information collections is compared with an alternative representation, combinFormation's composition of image and text surrogates. Representing collections with such compositions increases emergence in information discovery.}, author = {Kerne, Andruid and Smith, Steven M. and Koh, Eunyee and Choi, Hyun and Graeber, Ross}, citeulike-article-id = {3206822}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10447310802142243}, doi = {10.1080/10447310802142243}, journal = {International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction}, keywords = {information\_seeking\_behavior}, number = {5}, pages = {460--477}, posted-at = {2008-09-08 23:05:15}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis}, title = {An Experimental Method for Measuring the Emergence of New Ideas in Information Discovery}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10447310802142243}, volume = {24}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3206822 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3206822 N2 - Although sometimes the task that motivates searching, browsing, and collecting information resources is finding a particular fact, humans often use information resources in intellectual and creative tasks that can include comparison, understanding, and discovery. <i>Information discovery tasks</i> involve not only finding relevant information but also seeing relationships among collected information resources and developing new ideas. The hypothesis presented here is that how information is represented impacts the magnitude of human creativity in information discovery tasks. How can we measure this creative cognition? Studies of search have focused on time and accuracy, metrics of limited value for measuring creative discovery. A new experimental method is developed, which measures the <i>emergence of new ideas</i> in information discovery, to evaluate the efficacy of representations. The efficacy of the typical textual list representation for information collections is compared with an alternative representation, combinFormation's composition of image and text surrogates. Representing collections with such compositions increases emergence in information discovery. IS - 5 JF - International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction EP - 477 TI - An Experimental Method for Measuring the Emergence of New Ideas in Information Discovery PB - Taylor & Francis VL - 24 SP - 460 KW - information_seeking_behavior AU - Kerne, Andruid AU - Smith, Steven AU - Koh, Eunyee AU - Choi, Hyun AU - Graeber, Ross PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10447310802142243 ER -