Authors: Chi, Pei-Yu and Lieberman, Henry
Venue: IUI '10 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
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http://angel-at-chi.blogspot.com/2011/04/paper-reading-20-rush-repeated.html
http://shennessy11.blogspot.com/2011/04/paper-reading-20.html
Summary
This paper presents a story editing system to help with video and picture editing for novices. The software, called Raconteur, helps users assemble coherent stories for media elements. Commonsense, a reasoning technique and database, is used to identify similar story elements and link them together. In other words, the interface provided is intelligent and attempts to automatically relate uploaded pictures based on a short description provided by the user. The picture below shows the interface of Raconteur.
Discussion
The interface presented in the article reminded me mostly of facebook, and I have a feeling that this is the audience the authors had in mind for the product. Unlike most articles, this one has the feel of also being a product in addition to being research, which makes me doubt the objectivity of the content. In any case, I like the general idea, even if the technology could be better applied else where. When it comes down to it, any system like this will get things wrong from time to time, and when it does users will spend much more time than they ordinary would have to fix it, or else wont notice the mistake at all. Intelligent systems are better used for data mining, such as Watson.
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