Researchers face difficulties in reading scientific papers of unfamiliar fields with a good level of understanding.
Tasks
Highlight important bits of text with different colors while reading a paper (not implemented yet)
Formulate one-sentence summary for each paragraph
(Please check the attached video to see overall workflow including highlighting)
Instructions
Since our system is not available online yet, and also it needs complex set up process to run in local, we provide you some GUI concept video of our program.
The video was taken during the low-fi user study step, which is actually controlled by a reader who is new to this system.
Below is the instruction we ordered to the user. Some tasks such as pros/cons are removed from our design, so you don't need to pay attention to this. -If you want to check actual web page designs we used, you might want to look in HTML folder in our submission.
[Sign in]
- Click ‘Sign in’ button
[Group selection view]
- Click ‘Group 1’ among joined reading groups
[Paper selection view]
- Click ‘Read’ button of the first paper among registered papers within the group
[Paper reading view]
- While reading a paper, use multi-color highlight tool (not implemented yet) - After reading each paragraph, write and submit your summary
[Group result view]
- After submitting each summary, highlights of the group and others’ summaries are visible - Vote on the best summary sentence