Writing blocks: a visualization to support global revising

Authors:
Sheng Xu;Hirohito Shibata
Affiliations:
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan and Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, P.R. China;Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan
Venue:
OZCHI '07 Proceedings of the 19th Australasian conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Entertaining User Interfaces
Year:
2007

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Abstract

This paper focuses on the cognitive support of the revising activities of writing, especially the global revising activity. Most of previous writing support systems emphasize the support of content generating activities. As for revising, some of these systems have provided automatic spell check and grammar check features. However, revising should not be confined only to these local superficial changes. In this paper, we aim to support the revising activities through providing a new visualization and interaction that encourages writers to revise globally. We have built a system called Writing Blocks to confirm the feasibility of our approach. Our preliminary user study, which was conducted with three subjects, helped us to gain a perspective on the effectiveness of our approach especially in supporting revising scenarios such as the revising of scripts for time-restricted presentations and the revising of global usage of terms in long documents according to their contexts.