Design of an information skimming space

Abstract

This paper proposes the Information Skimming Space (ISS) which provides users with a window through which interesting news reports can be culled from the large number of reports created daily by the mass media, such as newspapers and TV stations, as well as serving as a powerful information retrieval system. Our idea is that information acquisition can be best performed by enhancing the efficiency with which the information is presented to and accessed by the user. To realize this concept, newspapers are analyzed as an information acquisition tool to make an effective presentation scheme suitable for rapid cognitive understanding. News Transmission Model is proposed to define navigation paths that allow the user to access other reports according to his or her interests.