LitForager: Exploring Multimodal Literature Foraging Strategies in Immersive Sensemaking
Haoyang Yang, Elliott H. Faa, Weijian Liu, Shunan Guo, Duen Horng Chau, Yalong Yang

TL;DR
LitForager is an immersive tool that enhances researchers' ability to discover and gather relevant academic literature using multimodal interactions and network visualizations, addressing a key gap in immersive sensemaking workflows.
Contribution
This paper introduces LitForager, a novel immersive environment for literature foraging that integrates network visualizations and multimodal interactions, informed by user studies.
Findings
Improved literature discovery efficiency in immersive environments
Enhanced spatial understanding of research networks
Positive user feedback on multimodal interaction effectiveness
Abstract
Exploring and comprehending relevant academic literature is a vital yet challenging task for researchers, especially given the rapid expansion in research publications. This task fundamentally involves sensemaking - interpreting complex, scattered information sources to build understanding. While emerging immersive analytics tools have shown cognitive benefits like enhanced spatial memory and reduced mental load, they predominantly focus on information synthesis (e.g., organizing known documents). In contrast, the equally important information foraging phase - discovering and gathering relevant literature - remains underexplored within immersive environments, hindering a complete sensemaking workflow. To bridge this gap, we introduce LitForager, an interactive literature exploration tool designed to facilitate information foraging of research literature within an immersive sensemaking…
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Taxonomy
TopicsData Visualization and Analytics · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Scientific Computing and Data Management
