Method for human-centric information access and presentation

摘要

In a method for composing and presenting information in a user context, the information shall be presented for the user on a man-machine interface in the form of a visual or graphic display. The method comprises steps for determining a user context in which the information is required, selecting a set of content sources, and the content components are retrieved from the content sources. The information in selected content components are computed using an information measure that reflects the information as perceived by human cognition, and an optimum presentation of the selected content components are determined and presented for the user.

主权项

1. A method for composing and presenting information in a user context, wherein the information comprises content of documents accessed and retrieved in an information search, the method comprising:
determining a user context that is associated with the information search; selecting a set of content sources; populating a set of content components comprising a number of navigators that each represent content by retrieving and refining content components from the set of content sources; computing component information in the content components using an information measure that reflects the information as perceived by human cognition, the selected content components comprising navigators; before displaying the navigators, transforming one or more of the navigators by aggregating noisy elements into a new entry in part to control an information density factor associated with a transformed navigator as part of determining and composing a presentation of the content components subject to one or more of human cognition constraints, user context constraints, presentation constraints and content constraints by accumulating content and removing navigators from content components determined to have a low information density or a high information density before the navigators are displayed such that the number of navigators that are displayed are reduced; and displaying the presentation after removing the navigators.