ACM Computing Surveys 28A(4), December 1996, http://www.acm.org/surveys/1996/StaskoFuture/. Copyright © 1996 by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. See the permissions statement below.
Abstract: A fundamental area of future HCI research will be the management of vast amounts of information. Three directions hold promise for addressing this research challenge: Better interface navigation, visualization tools for understanding, and agents or automated task managers.Categories and Subject Descriptors: H.5.2 [Information Interfaces and Presentation]: User Interfaces - Theory and methods
General Terms: Design, Human Factors
Additional Key Words and Phrases: Human-computer interaction, information visualization, agents