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shared innovation User Interaction and the Semantic Web (an indictment) Tom Heath Platform Division Talis Information Ltd tom.heath@talis.com http://tomheath.com/id/me shared innovation Building a Web of machine-readable data is


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User Interaction and the Semantic Web (an indictment)

Tom Heath

Platform Division Talis Information Ltd tom.heath@talis.com http://tomheath.com/id/me

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Building a Web of machine-readable data is meaningless without human end users

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From a user interaction perspective, the majority of Semantic Web applications completely miss the point

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Search and Browse (as currently conceived) are (mainly) predicated on a document-centric information space

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The Semantic Web is about things,

  • nly some of which are documents
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With a Web of (data about) things, what can we actually enable?

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...and what do users actually want to achieve?

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Our conceptual models of user goals are naïve (understatement of the year)

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Game changing innovation based on the Semantic Web requires us to change this

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Request: develop no new SW application if you can't first describe the user goal it addresses

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Request: dare to envision the kinds of goals that may be supported by the SW (beyond search and browse)

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Request: go to at least one HCI conference next year

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