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BibTex
@inproceedings{Matejka:2021:10.20380/GI2021.27,
author = {Matejka, Justin and Grossman, Tovi and Fitzmaurice, George},
title = {Paper Forager: Supporting the Rapid Exploration of Research Document Collections},
booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2021},
series = {GI 2021},
year = {2021},
issn = {0713-5424},
isbn = {978-0-9947868-6-9},
location = {Virtual Event},
pages = {237 -- 245},
numpages = {9},
doi = {10.20380/GI2021.27},
publisher = {Canadian Information Processing Society},
}
Abstract
We present Paper Forager, a web-based system which allows users to rapidly explore large collections of research documents. Our sample corpus uses 5,055 papers published at the ACM CHI and UIST conferences. Paper Forager provides a visually based browsing experience, allowing users to identify papers of interest based on their graphical appearance, in addition to providing traditional faceted search techniques. A cloud-based architecture stores the papers as multi-resolution images, giving users immediate access to reading individual pages of a paper, thus reducing the transaction cost between finding, scanning, and reading papers of interest. Initial user feedback sessions elicited positive subjective feedback, while a 24-month external deployment generated in-the-wild usage data which we analyze. Users of the system indicated that they would be enthusiastic to continue having access to the Paper Forager system in the future.