Resourceful interaction in information discovery

Resourceful interaction is proposed as a paradigm in which humans and computers mutually make available resources to deliver unprecedented performance, engagement and overall user experience in discovering information. Examples are reported from novel user interfaces for discovering information that exemplify Resourceful Interaction: an interactive model of intent represented by keywords used to direct exploratory search, entity based parallel search streams, eye tracking guidance combined with multitouch input in interactive visualizations. The examples demonstrate how providing access and manipulation of computational constructs such as the intent model constitute an important resource for users in information exploration. Correspondingly providing implicit signals of the user to the retrieval and visualization system can provide important resources to achieve fluid and symbiotic information discovery.