August, T., Wang, L. L., Bragg, J., Hearst, M. A., Head, A., & Lo, K. (2023). Paper Plain: Making Medical Research Papers Approachable to Healthcare Consumers with Natural Language Processing. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 30(5), 1–38

https://doi.org/10.1145/3589955

Augmented reading interface intended to make papers written for domain experts accessible to interested individuals. Especially for healthcare consumers who want to engage with medical and biological literature.

Some features:

• tooltips for definitions of common terms
• section summaries provided in a popover (accessible with a special glyph) at the start of each section
• a sidebar displays key questions like “what did the paper find?”, links to where that might be answered, and summaries of answers

Implemented using PaperCraft.