ITR/SY Proposal: Image-Based Information Access and Organization

当前的界面采用文本表示，限制了人们利用他们的空间能力来帮助处理他们所面临的日益扩大的信息领域。这个项目的动机是这样一种观点，即图像的空间和时间组织可以作为有效的界面组件，并且可以提供比标题和url的文本列表更多的优势。它探索了几个基于图像的应用程序：(1)视觉书签和视觉站点索引，用页面中的图像代替文本url；(2)视觉浏览摘要和活动历史，使用图像作为访问先前基于web的活动的方式；(3)图像增强查询结果，将图像添加到网络搜索结果中，以帮助消除它们的歧义。

Current interfaces employ textual representations, and restrict people from exploiting their spatial abilities to assist in dealing with the increasingly expanding information sphere they confront. This project is motivated by the view that spatial and temporal organization of images can serve as effective interface components and may offer multiple advantages over textual lists of titles and URLs. It explores several image-based applications: (1) Visual bookmarks and visual site indexes, that replace textual URLs with images from the pages; (2) Visual browsing summaries and activity histories, that use images as a way of accessing previous web-based activities; (3) Image augmented query results, that add images to the results of web searches to help disambiguate them.