Аннотация:We introduce the concept of hypercue, a complement to the hyperlink in the form of an interactive representation of real-world entities, e.g. persons, places, concepts, providing personalized access points to information. As a pendant to the hyperlink, hypercues create opportunities to flexibly discover, store and share information, organize one's thoughts and gain insights of the data. We explore the design space of interaction techniques supporting entity-based information exploration by reviewing recent examples of such work. We reflect on these through the lens of eight essential features of exploratory search systems, to devise generalizable design principles. Our main contribution is a design template describing the hypercue. It consists of a minimal set of affordances that ensure all important features for supporting exploratory search can be addressed, while leaving enough design space to facilitate integration within a variety of systems. We finally describe the rationale behind the design template and discuss its implications.
