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| Type | Bachelor's Thesis |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | ScreenCurator: Curation of digital knowledge with screenshots |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Faculty | Faculty of Business, Economics and Informatics |
| Date | 2023 |
| Abstract Text | In today's world, knowledge workers are often overwhelmed by the vast amounts of information they encounter while carrying out their tasks. As a result, it is vital to develop effective strategies for efficiently reusing previously foraged information to minimize foraging effort. One of these strategies is information curation, which is the concept of keeping, managing, and exploiting foraged information. Existing prototypes that addressed this topic have mostly specific use cases, like web resource curation or task history curation. Only a few of them allow the capturing of cross-application settings. None of these prototypes are optimized to support users in information foraging tasks. They lack extensive retrieval functionality, semantic content analysis, and structuring options for curated assets. To fill this void, we designed and developed the ScreenCurator. Our application allows users to capture cross-application screen settings and store them with extensive metadata. This combination shall enable comprehensive retrievability and reusability of curated knowledge. To provide users with a simple and pleasant experience, the ScreenCurator implements a certain degree of automation combined with an intuitive interface. Our application was evaluated in a user study where seven participants used the ScreenCurator for 10-15 working days besides their daily tasks. The gathered feedback implied that our approach improved the experience of taking and retrieving screenshots. Furthermore, two high-level use cases could be identified: long-term backups and short-term to-dos. Nevertheless, we found that the ScreenCurator needs to increase the implemented degree of automation and add further structuring options. Additionally, it would be of great value if the ScreenCurator would enable collaborative curation and knowledge sharing. Besides extending the feature set, care should be taken to maintain the simplicity and intuitiveness of the application. |
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