想象历史书籍贸易数据:与领域专家密切合作的代设计研究
IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
|October 23, 2023
概括
历史学家现在可以通过DanteExploreVis,一个视觉分析 (VA) 工具来探索复杂的书籍贸易数据. 该系统简化了对地理和时间流行的理解,有助于历史研究.
科学领域:
- 数字人文学科 数字人文学科
- 信息可视化 信息可视化
- 历史研究 历史研究
背景情况:
- 历史书籍流通数据是复杂的,并且对于领域专家来说很难从基于文本的陈述中解释.
- 地理和时间特征通常被埋在文本数据中,阻碍了全面的分析.
- 需要专门的工具来促进对历史书籍贸易动态的探索和理解.
研究的目的:
- 开发一个视觉分析 (VA) 工具,DanteExploreVis,以帮助历史学家探索,解释和呈现书籍贸易数据.
- 为了解决领域专家在消化复杂的地理和时间信息时所面临的挑战.
- 促进可视化研究人员和数字人文学科历史学家之间的合作.
主要方法:
- 在设计和开发过程中采用了九阶段框架的一个变体.
- 设计了一个互动的VA工具,有多个面板,根据域需求量身定制.
- 与领域专家进行了定性评估,以评估该工具的有效性.
主要成果:
- 开发了DanteExploreVis,这是一个VA工具,支持对书籍交易数据的多视角探索.
- 由九阶段框架指导的代设计过程确保了该工具满足历史学家的需求.
- 定性评估表明,该工具有助于领域专家理解和呈现历史图书流通的实用性.
结论:
- 丹特ExploreVis工具有效地支持对历史书籍交易数据的探索,解释和呈现.
- 该设计研究强调了跨学科合作在推动数字人文学科研究中的价值.
- 记录的过程和经验教训为未来的人文学中VA工具开发提供了可转移的方法.
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