A Design Study of Visualizing Historical Book Movement

Yiwen Xing; Cristina Dondi; Rita Borgo; Alfie Abdul-Rahman

doi:10.2312/evs.20221100

A Design Study of Visualizing Historical Book Movement

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Trading of 15th-century books is an area of great interest to historians. In this paper, we document the process behind an intensive design study and close collaboration with a domain expert on understanding crucial historical research questions, together with the result of the design study - BookTracker, a tool for mining and visualizing circulation and movement of the 15th-century book trade. The main contribution includes a summary of insights from the design study and BookTracker, a web application supporting historians in: (i) query-based search of user-defined path sequences, and (ii) analysis of the movement of the resulting user-defined path sequences through multiple visualization techniques. We discuss and summarize the value and logistics of conducting this design study, which could become generalizable lessons for the visualization design methodology.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	EuroVis 2022 - Short Paper
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2312/evs.20221100
Publication status	Published - 13 Jun 2022

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