GVU Technical Report Number:
GIT-GVU-97-03
Title:
Information Awareness on the Desktop: A Case Study
Authors:
D. Scott McCrickard
Abstract:
In the future, the amount of online information will
increase as more people use the Internet for a growing
number of activities. Staying updated on the status
of important information requires a tool that
will monitor information resources and alert the user when
changes occur. To remain both useful and unintrusive,
such a tool must provide quick access to information
in a small space. To address this need, we created Irwin,
a highly configurable information monitoring tool.
This paper describes Irwin and examines how four users
used it over a five-month period.
Keywords:
Internet, information monitoring tools, Irwin
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