The Case for the Radically Simple Interface and Intelligent Information System
Data
4.1 Unmediated digital data, exemplified by the World Wide Web, presents problems for people who do not know:
- What they want
- What their potential choices are
- How to define a search
- How to assign weight/value to data (media literacy)
4.2 In these circumstances what people need is a set of dialogue based search tools. For example, if I institute a search for "Dogs" the obvious questions are:
- What kind of dogs?
- What aspect of dogs?
- What level of technicality?
- Current best practice or historical?
This might result in a search for non technical, current best practice on the diet for adult Labradors.