TY - RPRT T1 - Understanding Scientific Literature Networks: An Evaluation of Action Science Explorer Y1 - 2011 A1 - Gove,R. A1 - Dunne,C. A1 - Shneiderman, Ben A1 - Klavans,J. A1 - Dorr, Bonnie J AB - Action Science Explorer (ASE) is a tool designed to supportusers in rapidly generating readily consumable summaries of academic literature. The authors describe ASE and report on how early formative evaluations led to a mature system evaluation, consisting of an in-depth empirical evaluation with 4 domain expert participants. The user study tasks were of two types: predefined tasks to test system perfor- mance in common scenarios, and user-defined tasks to test the system’s usefulness for custom exploration goals. This paper concludes by describing ASE’s attribute ranking ca- pability which is a novel contribution for exploring scientific literature networks. It makes design recommendations to: give the users control over which documents to explore, easy- to-understand metrics for ranking documents, and overviews of the document set in coordinated views along with details- on-demand of specific papers. PB - University of Maryland at College Park ER -