将阅读行为视为创造性活动，追踪其轨迹以揭示被算法压缩的思维过程。
Chasing RATs: Tracing Reading for and as Creative Activity
- 提出阅读活动轨迹（RATs），把浏览、解读、整合信息视为创作。
- 通过WikiRAT在维基百科上实现轨迹可视化，展示隐性创作劳动。
- 适合关注人机交互、信息素养与智能工具设计的研究者。
创造力研究长期侧重于创作本身，而忽视了其前的阐释性劳动。本文提出阅读活动轨迹（RATs），将阅读——广义地涵盖跨源媒体的导航、解释与编排——视为既为未来创作奠基，也具有独立创造性的活动。通过追踪浏览路径、关联模式与反思过程，并将其作为可检视的实体，RATs 能够揭示算法推荐和AI摘要日益压缩与自动化的创造性工作。我们以维基百科上的示例系统WikiRAT进行演示，开辟了反思性实践、读者建模、集体意义建构的新路径，并探讨了当人类解读被自动化时所损失的内容，旨在设计能保留这一创造性的智能工具。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Creativity research has privileged making over the interpretive labor that precedes and shapes it. We introduce Reading Activity Traces (RATs), a proposal that treats reading -- broadly defined to include navigating, interpreting, and curating media across interconnected sources -- as creative activity both for future artifacts and as a form of creation in its own right. By tracing trajectories of traversal, association, and reflection as inspectable artifacts, RATs render visible the creative work that algorithmic feeds and AI summarization increasingly compress and automate away. We illustrate this through WikiRAT, a speculative instantiation on Wikipedia, and open new ground for reflective practice, reader modeling, collective sensemaking, and understanding what is lost when human interpretation is automated -- towards designing intelligent tools that preserve it.
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