I-Corps: Transforming the Web to Support New Ideas: Beyond the Feed and the Board

网络策展是一种流行的在线活动，人们参与，以帮助他们了解他们遇到的数字内容。常用的技术包括书签、文档、幻灯片、博客、论坛和社交媒体源。然而，这些形式是线性的，因此是限制性的。Web内容是高度互联和动态的。拟议中的技术，IdeaMâché，为人们提供了简单而强大的工具，方便收集，组织，并以新的方式呈现数字内容，使他们能够表达关系和综合想法。IdeaMâché有潜力改变人们与数字内容互动和思考的方式。个人电脑和移动的设备用户可以通过网络访问该网站。学生、教育工作者、研究人员、企业和任何与信息打交道的人都可以从我们的在线信息发现、收集、学习和思考方法中受益。拟议中的创新有可能在不同的背景下为更多的人带来表达能力，支持学习和创新，推动社会进步？的幸福。该团队开发了一个基于云的交互式策展环境，用于收集、组装、注释和展示数字内容。其独特的价值是通过一个强大的自由形式和表达媒介的策展。它超越了PowerPoint幻灯片，Pinterest董事会和Facebook提要的静态和限制表示。拟议工作的预期重要成果包括：一个自由形式的策展媒介，刺激批判性，联想性和创造性思维，支持空间和视觉转换，以帮助用户通过剪辑和注释并置和综合新出现的想法，一个可缩放的用户界面，利用认知组块来支持大量内容的有意义的组装，一个自发的收集界面，使用直接操作剪辑来自动捕获上下文和个性化的元数据，以及在流行的社交媒体中集成展示和分享这些策展。该团队假设，提出的新技术将减轻认知负荷，减少努力，并为收集，组织和展示信息提供表达能力。IdeaMâché已经被超过4,000名学生卓有成效地使用，在德克萨斯州A M大学和Prairie View A M的5个系中提供11门课程。为了在I-Corps过程中帮助展示IdeaMaché的商业潜力，该团队将专注于改善对潜在客户产生最大影响的领域。这包括改进IdeaMâché的网页展示，扩大其社交媒体整合，并允许IdeaMâché网页策展嵌入其他网页。

Web curation is a popular online activity people engage in to help them understand the digital content they encounter. Common techniques for doing this include bookmarks, documents, slides, blogs, boards, and social media feeds. However, these forms are linear and thus, restrictive. Web content is highly interconnected and dynamic. The proposed technology, IdeaMâché, provides people with easy and powerful tools that facilitate collecting, organizing, and presenting digital content in new ways which allow them to express relationships and synthesize ideas. IdeaMâché has the potential to transform how people interact with and think about their digital content. It is accessible to users of personal computers and mobile devices with web access. Students, educators, researchers, businesses, and anyone who works with information can benefit from our approach to discovering, assembling, learning from, and thinking about information online. The proposed innovation has the potential to bring expressive power to more people in diverse contexts, supporting learning and innovation, and advancing society?s well-being. This team has developed a cloud-based, interactive curation environment for gathering, assembling, annotating, and exhibiting digital content. Its unique value is derived through a powerful free-form and expressive medium of curation. It surpasses the static and constricting representations of PowerPoint slides, Pinterest boards, and Facebook feeds. Expected significant outcomes of the proposed work include: a free-form medium of curation that stimulates critical, associational, and creative thinking, support for spatial and visual transformations to help users juxtapose and synthesize emergent ideas through clippings and annotations, a zoomable user interface that makes use of cognitive chunking in order to support the meaningful assembly of large amounts of content, a spontaneous gathering interface that uses direct manipulation clipping to automatically capture contextual and personalized metadata, and the integrated exhibition and sharing of these curations in popular social media. The team hypothesizes that the proposed new technology will mitigate cognitive load, reduce effort, and provide expressive power for gathering, organizing, and exhibiting information. IdeaMâché has already been fruitfully used by over 4,000 students, spanning 11 course offerings in 5 departments, at Texas A&M University and Prairie View A&M. In order to help demonstrate the commercial potential of IdeaMâché during the I-Corps process the team will focus on improving areas that will provide greatest impact to potential customers. This includes improving the web presentation of IdeaMâché, expanding its social media integration, and allowing IdeaMâché web curations to be embedded in other web pages.