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T1 A user-centered Perspective on Interactive  Data Visualization.  A digital flâneries into the documentation of the Historical Italian Mind Science Archive
A1 Bollini, Letizia
K1 Interactive data visualization
K1 digital archives interfaces and interactions
K1 user-centered design
AB The data visualization debate is often polarized between the twodominant position of communication design and data science. A human-cen-tered approach can introduce a third perspective putting people who'll use theinformation in a prominent role in the design process. According to user re-search methods, user personas and task-based testing, and co-design activities,the paper presents a case study developed for the Historical Italian Mind Sci-ence Archive (Aspi). The project has been focused on the experience of the userswhen surfing the hierarchicalstructure of the Aspi website looking for biograph-ical information about the protagonists or searching for primary and originaldocuments – such as correspondence, writings, notes – inside the digitized ar-chives and their inventory. Interactive data visualization, on one hand, and hu-man-centered design, on the other, are the two drivers chosen to make linksad connections – otherwise embedded in the historical knowledge of expertsin the field – explicit or, better to say, visible. The results are different concep-tual and visual displays of the archives and curated contents of the website of-fering dynamic and interactive insights according to three different selected cri-teria: time, space, people. Activities of expert walk-through and user-testing,used in the research phase of the process have been used to evaluate the finalresults to understand and assess the overall experience of users and to validatethe initial design hypothesis to extend the approach beyond the proposed casestudy.
PB Vicerrectorado de Docencia. Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de La Laguna
SN 978-84-09-10171-9
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/18466
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/18466
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 05-may-2024