Innovation
Methods, ideas, or system contributions that make the work stand out.
Scholarly Sensibilities
Creative Reading Traces
Research Probe
Curiosity-driven Reading
HCI
Feeling Wistful: Reflecting on Scholarly Sensibilities with Creative Reading Traces
🤖 AI Summary
This study addresses the absence of representational mechanisms for scholars' early-stage, ineffable intuitive judgments and personalized reading trajectories within AI-mediated academic exploration. To bridge this gap, we introduce the concept of "creative reading traces" and design Wistful, a research probe that captures open-ended reading trajectories. By integrating user behavior log analysis with comparative experiments, this approach transforms tacit scholarly sensitivity into explicit, reflectable, and exchangeable artifacts. The contributions of this work include the visualization of curiosity-driven, differentiated exploration paths and the elucidation of distinct cognitive logics between senior and junior researchers. Ultimately, it provides innovative support for the deep reflection on scholarly sensitivity and facilitates meaningful peer exchange within the academic community.
📝 Abstract
Researchers often read before they can articulate what they are looking for. As AI increasingly mediates scholarly search and synthesis, understanding and preserving the idiosyncratic judgments guiding early exploration become important. We call these evolving orientations scholarly sensibilities. To understand curiosity-driven reading, we first examined Wikipedia rabbitholing, a self-directed browsing practice, then designed Wistful, a research probe for open-ended scholarly exploration that captures reading paths as creative reading traces. We studied Wistful with 16 HCI researchers---eight junior and eight senior---in comparison with their usual workflows. Researchers approached the same scholarly landscape differently, with familiarity and personal interests shaping what they pursued and semantic proximity and scholarly links shaping their paths. Their traces made these differences visible and let readers revisit and compare their paths. We position creative reading traces as artifacts for reflection and exchange and as a means of studying how scholarly sensibilities are expressed through reading.
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