SummaryLens : A Smartphone App for Exploring Interactive Use of Automated Text Summarization in Everyday Life

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Benharrak, Karim ; Lehmann, Florian ; Dang, Hai ; Buschek, Daniel:
SummaryLens : A Smartphone App for Exploring Interactive Use of Automated Text Summarization in Everyday Life.
2022
Event: 27th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, IUI 2022 , 22. - 25.03.2022 , Helsinki, Finland, online.
(Conference item: Conference , Poster )
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3490100.3516471

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We present SummaryLens, a concept and prototype for a mobile tool that leverages automated text summarization to enable users to quickly scan and summarize physical text documents. We further combine this with a text-to-speech system to read out the summary on demand. With this concept, we propose and explore a concrete application case of bringing ongoing progress in AI and Natural Language Processing to a broad audience with interactive use cases in everyday life. Based on our implemented features, we describe a set of potential usage scenarios and benefits, including support for low-vision, low-literate and dyslexic users. A first usability study shows that the interactive use of automated text summarization in everyday life has noteworthy potential. We make the prototype available as an open-source project to facilitate further research on such tools.