Visualizing Historical Book Trade Data: An Iterative Design Study with Close Collaboration with Domain Experts
Published in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2023
The circulation of historical books has always been an area of interest for historians. However, the data used to represent the journey of a book across different places and times can be difficult for domain experts to digest due to buried geographical and chronological features within text-based presentations. This paper describes a design study where a variant of the Nine-Stage Framework was employed to develop a Visual Analytics (VA) tool called DanteExploreVis. This tool was designed to aid domain experts in exploring, explaining, and presenting book trade data from multiple perspectives. We discuss the design choices made and how each panel in the interface meets the domain requirements. We also present the results of a qualitative evaluation conducted with domain experts.
Recommended citation: Y. Xing, C. Dondi, R. Borgo and A. Abdul-Rahman, "Visualizing Historical Book Trade Data: An Iterative Design Study with Close Collaboration with Domain Experts," in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 540-550, Jan. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TVCG.2023.3326923.
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