LiquidText A Flexible Multitouch Environment to Support Active Reading

Last updated March 17, 2023

• #Resource

• Metadata
  • Title: LiquidText: A Flexible, Multitouch Environment to Support Active Reading
    • Tags:: #[references] #[D/Synthesis Infrastructure]
  • Authored by:: [Craig S. Tashman] , W. Keith Edwards
  • Year: 2011
  • Publication: CHI ‘11
  • PDF
    • https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LNJG5omgCORzqbDaURkZqk1fpF76Orbl/preview
• Context
  • #canonical ref for probably [SOTA]-class system as of [April 7th, 2020] for [synthesis] tools
• Reading notes
  • Introduces LiquidText system
  • Also has nice review of basic ideas about [active reading]
  • #Claim To support [active reading], systems must enable people to trace excerpts back to their original [context] (p. 7)
    • cf. Knowledge must be recontextualized to be usefully reused
    • cites Student readers use of library documents as justification
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