Knowledge Interaction Design for Creative Knowledge Work
Kumiyo Nakakoji, Yasuhiro Yamamoto · Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence · 2004
This paper describes our approach for the development of application systems for creative knowledge work, particularly for early stages of information design tasks.Being a cognitive tool serving as a means of externalization, an application system affects how the user is engaged in the creative process through its visual interaction design.Knowledge interaction design described in this paper is a framework where a set of application systems for different information design domains are developed based on an interaction model, which is designed for a particular model of a thinking process.We have developed two sets of application systems using the knowledge interaction design framework: one includes systems for linear information design, such as writing, movie-editing, and video-analysis; the other includes systems for network information design, such as file-system navigation and hypertext authoring.Our experience shows that the resulting systems encourage users to follow a certain cognitive path through graceful user experience.