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Intelligent User Interfaces for Data Sharing and Documentation

The Biofinity Project aims to bridge the gaps between disparate data sources by fostering collaboration and providing advanced user support. It addresses the need for meaningful data sharing and promotes the formation of common knowledge through an intelligent user interface. The system recommends activities and summarizations based on user interactions, enhancing productivity and the overall end-user experience. Key features include collaborative writing tools, rich media support, and a content management system that encourages active participation among users, enriching classroom engagement and collaborative research.

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Intelligent User Interfaces for Data Sharing and Documentation

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  1. Intelligent User Interfaces for Data Sharing and Documentation Adam Eck, Biofinity Project October 19, 2011 TDWG 2011

  2. Motivation • 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

  3. Approach • 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

  4. Biofinity Intelligent Wiki • Content management system • Annotations and documentation • Related information • Collaborative writing tool • Project management • Experiment design • Shared lab notebook • Discussions

  5. Features | Wiki Functionality • Rich text WYSIWYG editing (titles and content) • 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 • Viewable page revision history • Compare differences between revisions • View page content contributed by users

  6. Features | Advanced Collaboration • Evaluate page quality • Discover user interests • Summarize key concepts • Organize content • Discover user expertise • Share articles/ideas between users • Help users navigate • Coordinate activities • Suggest improvements to pages • Resolve disputes • User attribution

  7. Features | Intelligent Support • 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

  8. Biofinity Integration • 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

  9. Biofinity Integration

  10. Deployment | Classroom Use • 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

  11. Deployment | Duckweed Project • 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

  12. Future Work| Features • Enhanced recommendations • Pages to view • Pages to edit • Content to include • User matchmaking • Encourage collaboration

  13. Future Work| Features • 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

  14. Questions • Wiki available at: http://biofinity.unl.edu/wiki • Email: biofinity.wiki [at] gmail.com

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