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dc.contributor.authorHinrichs, Uta
dc.contributor.authorForlini, Stefania
dc.contributor.authorMoynihan, Bridget
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-24T23:11:24Z
dc.date.available2015-10-24T23:11:24Z
dc.date.issued2015-08-12
dc.identifier.citationHinrichs , U , Forlini , S & Moynihan , B 2015 , ' Speculative practices : utilizing InfoVis to explore untapped literary collections ' , IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics , vol. 22 , no. 1 , pp. 429-438 . https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467452en
dc.identifier.issn1077-2626
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 205726082
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: c359e013-fbda-4829-b756-248832db28b4
dc.identifier.otherBibtex: urn:77b27265b54392e6cd6a24cf61f29245
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84946600390
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000364043400048
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/7687
dc.descriptionFunding: Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Councilen
dc.description.abstractIn this paper we exemplify how information visualization supports speculative thinking, hypotheses testing, and preliminary interpretation processes as part of literary research. While InfoVis has become a buzz topic in the digital humanities, skepticism remains about how effectively it integrates into and expands on traditional humanities research approaches. From an InfoVis perspective, we lack case studies that show the specific design challenges that make literary studies and humanities research at large a unique application area for information visualization. We examine these questions through our case study of the Speculative W@nderverse, a visualization tool that was designed to enable the analysis and exploration of an untapped literary collection consisting of thousands of science fiction short stories. We present the results of two empirical studies that involved general-interest readers and literary scholars who used the evolving visualization prototype as part of their research for over a year. Our findings suggest a design space for visualizing literary collections that is defined by (1) their academic and public relevance, (2) the tension between qualitative vs. quantitative methods of interpretation, (3) result- vs. process-driven approaches to InfoVis, and (4) the unique material and visual qualities of cultural collections. Through the Speculative W@nderverse we demonstrate how visualization can bridge these sometimes contradictory perspectives by cultivating curiosity and providing entry points into literary collections while, at the same time, supporting multiple aspects of humanities research processes.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphicsen
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dc.subjectDigital Humanitiesen
dc.subjectInterlinked visualizationen
dc.subjectLiterary studiesen
dc.subjectCultural collectionsen
dc.subjectScience fictionen
dc.subjectQA75 Electronic computers. Computer scienceen
dc.subject3rd-NDASen
dc.subjectBDCen
dc.subjectR2Cen
dc.subject~DC~en
dc.subject.lccQA75en
dc.titleSpeculative practices : utilizing InfoVis to explore untapped literary collectionsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Computer Scienceen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2015.2467452
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2015-10-25


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