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title: R- LiquidText A Flexible Multitouch Environment to Support Active Reading
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author: Craig Tashman, W. Keith Edwards
year: 2011
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- Metadata
    - Title: LiquidText: A Flexible, Multitouch Environment to Support Active Reading
        - Tags:: #[references] #[D/Synthesis Infrastructure]
    - Authored by::  [Craig S. Tashman] ,  W. Keith Edwards
    - Year: 2011
    - Publication: CHI '11
    - PDF
        - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LNJG5omgCORzqbDaURkZqk1fpF76Orbl/preview
- Context
    - #canonical ref for probably [SOTA]-class system as of [April 7th, 2020] for [synthesis] tools
- Reading notes
    - Introduces [[LiquidText]] system
    - Also has nice review of basic ideas about [active reading]
    - #Claim To support [active reading], systems must enable people to trace excerpts back to their original [context] (p. 7)
        - cf. [[C- Knowledge must be recontextualized to be usefully reused]]
        - cites [[R- Student readers use of library documents]] as justification
            - ![](https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/firescript-577a2.appspot.com/o/imgs%2Fapp%2Fmegacoglab%2FBAOos0FfjB?alt=media&token=b0c45a1a-6c22-40ea-9d0f-7dbed9b0198b)