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		<title>Visual metaphors assist busy readers, learners</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[See this in the news: Probono Austrlalia Apr-24 Non-profit Forum May-02 Announcing the availability of the first implementation of the Knowledge Ferret open source project. The knowledgeferret.com adds a compelling visual metaphor to the document reader to help busy readers to make sense of large and complicated documents. The Productivity Commissions recent report into the Not-For-Profit sector in Australia is being used as a test of this technology. The &#8220;Knowledge Ferret&#8221; is David&#8217;s third exploration of adding visual metaphor to large documents. The first was the Visual PMBOK(r) Guide &#8211; jospar.com and the second earlier work was for NSW Health&#8217;s Protocols and Procedures for Aged Care Assessment In the &#8220;Knowledge Ferret&#8221; the visual metaphor is formed by the index on the left hand side of the document. It shows the topic that is currently in focus and the context of this topic. While the user can&#8217;t ever see all the topics in a document at one time, if ever a topic is visible, it is always in the same place in relation to all other topics. This means that as the user interacts and explores the document they are simultaneously building a mental map of the whole document. While a [...]]]></description>
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