TopicShop: enhanced support for evaluating and organizing collections of Web sites
UIST '00 Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
The advantages of a cross-session web workspace
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Context-based page unit recommendation for web-basedsensemaking tasks
Proceedings of the 17th international conference on World Wide Web
Context-based page unit recommendation for web-based sensemaking tasks
Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Making sense of strangers' expertise from signals in digital artifacts
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
CoSense: enhancing sensemaking for collaborative web search
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Distributed sensemaking: improving sensemaking by leveraging the efforts of previous users
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Adaptive visualization for exploratory information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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The World Wide Web is a powerful platform for a wide range of information tasks. Dramatic advances in technology, such as improved search capabilities and the AJAX application model, have enabled entirely new web-based applications and usage patterns, making many tasks easier to perform than ever before. However, few tools have been developed to assist with sensemaking tasks: complex research behaviors in which users gather and comprehend information from many sources to answer potentially vague, non-procedural questions. Sensemaking tasks are common and include, for example, researching vacation destinations or deciding how to invest. This paper presents the ScratchPad, an extension to the standard browser interface that is designed to capture, organize, and exploit the information discovered while performing a sensemaking task.