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

网络管理是人们参与的一种流行的在线活动，以帮助他们理解他们遇到的数字内容。实现这一点的常用技术包括书签、文档、幻灯片、博客、公告板和社交媒体提要。然而，这些形式是线性的，因此具有限制性。网络内容是高度互联和动态的。拟议的技术Ideamáché为人们提供了简单而强大的工具，有助于以新的方式收集、组织和呈现数字内容，使他们能够表达关系和综合想法。Ideamáché有可能改变人们与数字内容互动和思考的方式。具有Web访问权限的个人计算机和移动设备的用户可以访问它。学生、教育工作者、研究人员、企业和任何从事信息工作的人都可以从我们发现、收集、学习和思考在线信息的方法中受益。提出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，促进社会福祉-S。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。它的独特价值来自于强大的自由形式和富有表现力的策展媒介。它超越了PowerPoint幻灯片、Pinterest面板和Facebook feed的静态和紧凑的表示形式。拟议工作的预期重要成果包括：刺激批判性、关联性和创造性思维的自由形式的馆藏媒介，支持空间和视觉转换，以帮助用户通过剪贴和注释并列和综合新出现的想法，利用认知组块来支持大量内容的有意义的组装的可缩放用户界面，使用直接操纵剪裁自动捕获上下文和个性化元数据的自发收集界面，以及在流行的社交媒体上集成展示和分享这些馆藏。该团队假设，拟议的新技术将减轻认知负担，减少工作量，并为收集、组织和展示信息提供表现力。在德克萨斯农工大学和Prairie View农工大学，超过4,000名学生已经在5个系的11门课程中卓有成效地使用了Ideamáché。为了在i-Corps过程中帮助展示Ideamáché的商业潜力，团队将专注于改进将为潜在客户提供最大影响的领域。这包括改进Ideamáché的网络展示，扩大其社交媒体整合，并允许Ideamáché网络策展嵌入其他网页。

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.