Abstract
Recently, curation of web contents is widely spotlighted. Curation is selection and summarization of contents from one's viewpoint on a theme. It is important for curation to represent the context in which one can interpret curated contents. However, with existing services, such as Naver matome, both representing a variety of context and understanding the context intuitively are difficult. Consequently, one can not curate web contents effectively by trial and error. Therefore, we developed a web content curation system using cover generate engine on two-dimensional layout. Two-dimensional layout enables to layout many contents flexibly and to overlook the whole of the curated page. Cover of a web page, which is composed of images, texts and colors in the web page, enables to understand each content and context intuitively. To evaluate our system, we conducted an comparative experiment with Naver matome. As a result, our system showed more variety of representation of curations, and had more visual elements in the curation pages than Naver matome. Also, users using our system tended to be attentive toappearance and intuition of contents.
