MODEL AND METHOD FOR REDUCING VISUAL COMPLEXITY AND SEARCH EFFORT VIA IDEAL INFORMATION ABSTRACTION, HIDING, AND SEQUENCING

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and a method for controlling and presenting information to a user in an automated manner. PSOLUTION: Sets of information items accessible by the user from computer work spaces are automatically hidden or reduced from view in order to facilitate user processing of a determined and/or reduced subset of information. The reduced subset is created from decision-theoretic considerations of the expected costs and benefits of hiding or reducing information items from view or presentation while leaving more likely items or objects exposed for efficient access by the user. The control of the optimization may be facilitated by preference-assessment interfaces that allow a designer and/or a user to assess preferences about the costs of reviewing sets of items of different lengths and about the costs of gestures to reveal additional items. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI