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A Context Visualiser: the Generative Website Project


Shigeki Amitani∗and Ernest Edmonds†
Creativity & Cognition Studios,
Australasian CRC for Interaction Design,
University of Technology, Sydney

1 Introduction
This paper presents a prototype generative system that visualises
possible sequences of information, often called scenarios, narra-
tives, stories, or contexts, out of existing information so that (1) in-
formation designers and audiences of information can explore and
discover possible contexts that otherwise could be missed; and (2)
the generated information artefacts can stimulate creative thinking.
The generated sequences are expected to work as : (1) final prod-
ucts that a user (audience) can enjoy; and (2) draft materials that a
user (information designer) can modify.
We are currently working on the Generative Website Project sup-
ported by Australasian CRC for Interaction Design (ACID), in col-
laboration with International Federation of Arts Councils and Cul- Figure 1: A Search Result for “musician”
tural Agencies (IFACCA). They are renewing their web site1 in or-
der to provide more dynamic contents to audiences of the web site.
By double-clicking with holding down the shift key, the system
The generative website is expected to be a place for following aims: shows the entire selected sequences so that the user can actually
read and understand the content of the sequence . Users can open
• Audiences of the web site can post their articles, comments,
as many text areas as they want so that they can compare multiple
and video clips
sequences with each other. Our first impression is that generated
• The web site provides dynamic contents so that audiences can sequences are consistent and seems to be “a story”. We are going
enjoy different contexts each time when new information arte- to (1) evaluate the quality of generated sequences and interactions
facts are added by the content provider and / or audiences between the system and users; and (2) extend this system for non-
text-based information such as videos and music.
2 A Prototype System and Usage Scenario
The system is an implementation of a conceptual system called
Knowledge Nebula Crystallizer, developed based on a concept
called “Knowledge Liquidization & Crystallization” [Amitani and
Hori 2003]. It dissolves information artefacts into small segments
with preserving the local semantic relationships with using the cri-
teria called Term Dependency and Term Attractiveness [Akaishi
et al. 2006]. Then it restructures the relationships among the seg-
ments in a contextual way with Main Topic Term Dependency that
we have developed.
In this example, 10 text data of articles on the web site of the
IFACCA were used. The articles are actual reports from art con-
ferences and news. The system segmented them into 57 segments. Figure 2: Connected Content
A user enters a topic term that the user thinks is a main topic for
what the user is searching. Figure 1 shows the search result with
keyword “musician”. The circled segment (labeled “right0”) is a References
segment containing the search term “musician”. The text area on
the right side indicates the content of a selected segment. A KAISHI , M., H ORI , K., AND S ATOH , K. 2006. Topic tracer:
A visualization tool for quick reference of stories embedded in
The segments connected with the first segment with lines in Fig- document set. In International Conference on Information Vi-
ure 1 (labeled with “presentation”, “Organization”, and “work”) are sualisation 2006, D. A. Keim, F. Mansmann, J. Schneidewind,
suggested as the second segment of a sequence based on the value H. Ziegler, C. Tominski, J. Abello, F. v. Ham, H. Schumann,
of Main Topic Term Dependency. By selecting one of them, further M. Jern, and J. Franz, Eds., 101–106.
connections are visualised (Figure 2).
A MITANI , S., AND H ORI , K. 2003. Knowledge nebula crystallizer
∗ e-mail: shigeki@shigekifactory.com for knowledge lequidization & crystallization - from a theory
† e-mail: ernest@ernestedmonds.com to a methodology of knowledge management. Proceedings of
1 Current IFACCA web site is: http://www.ifacca.org/ Expertise In Design, Design Thinking Research Symposium 6.

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