Abstract:
Our highly digitized world brings us into contact with networked information
systems with the potential to help us locate information quickly and easily at the
touch of a button. But it is far from easy to quickly find the exact information we
need. Every new resource added increases the time needed to locate the right
information. The increasing scale of resource collections continues to drive the
need for innovative methods of organizing and providing access to the
information within these collections (Bates, 1999). This panel will discuss the
prospect of designing for uncertainty - that is creating information systems
based on the premise that (in certain situations) uncertainty can be a powerful
mediating strategy for people.
