Intriguing example with the shoemaker story, but initially confusing. After playing with it, okay, but still perhaps more confusing than the concept which is clear.
The trick with the cursor suggests: what if the context was ambient, like a graph of concept bubbles around whatever paragraph has focus? Or, a step further, as if the paragraph was a card in an array of cards swiped across a desk in "is this your card?" style, with fisheye focus on paragraph text, past and future paragraphs as cards to left and right of this one, with summarized concepts bracketing those from above and below?
In any case, this is onto something, and worth experimenting with various UIs.
Intriguing example with the shoemaker story, but initially confusing. After playing with it, okay, but still perhaps more confusing than the concept which is clear.
The trick with the cursor suggests: what if the context was ambient, like a graph of concept bubbles around whatever paragraph has focus? Or, a step further, as if the paragraph was a card in an array of cards swiped across a desk in "is this your card?" style, with fisheye focus on paragraph text, past and future paragraphs as cards to left and right of this one, with summarized concepts bracketing those from above and below?
In any case, this is onto something, and worth experimenting with various UIs.