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Wasting “Waste” is a Waste: Gleaning Deleted Text Fragments for Use in Future Knowledge Creation

Authors:
Hiroaki Ikuta
Kazushi Nishimoto

Keywords: intangible waste; knowledge utilization; writing support system; deleted text fragments.

Abstract:
While creating a document, an author externalizes his/her thought or idea to text fragments and then organizes and revises them iteratively to polish up the document. In this process, the author may partially delete the contents (i.e., text fragments) from the document because he/she determines that the fragments are not proper as parts of the document. However, these deleted text fragments may be valuable in other future attempts at knowledge creation. This paper proposes Text ComposTer, which is a document-writing support system equipped with a function of collecting the deleted text fragments. We first conduct a pilot study to assess what kind of deleted text fragments are reusable and implement Text ComposTer based on the assessment results. We conduct user studies and confirm that Text ComposTer can efficiently collect reusable deleted text fragments.

Pages: 193 to 199

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017

Publication date: March 19, 2017

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4138

ISBN: 978-1-61208-538-8

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from March 19, 2017 to March 23, 2017