Visual Interface Design for Digital Cultural Heritage

A Guide to Rich-Prospect Browsing

Stan Ruecker, Milena Radzikowska, Stefan Sinclair (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

206 Seiten

2011
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4094-0422-4 (ISBN)

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Browsing for information with a rich-prospect interface enables a researcher to use a highly-flexible, intuitive tool to assist hypothesis formation and pattern-finding. This book discusses the interface design, with examples of how it can be done, and demonstrates its importance to all aspects of library and information science in the digital age.

Browsing for information is a significant part of most research activity, but many online collections hamper browsing with interfaces that are variants on a search box. Research shows that rich-prospect interfaces can offer an intuitive and highly flexible alternative environment for information browsing, assisting hypothesis formation and pattern-finding. This unique book offers a clear discussion of this form of interface design, including a theoretical basis for why it is important, and examples of how it can be done. It will be of interest to those working in the fields of library and information science, human-computer interaction, visual communication design, and the digital humanities as well as those interested in new theories and practices for designing web interfaces for library collections, digitized cultural heritage materials, and other types of digital collections.

Stan Ruecker is Associate Professor at Illinois Institute of Technology, USA; Milena Radzikowska is Associate Professor in the Centre for Communication Studies at Mount Royal University, Canada and Stéfan Sinclair is Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, Languages, Literatures & Cultures, McGill University, Canada

Contents: Introduction to rich-prospect interfaces; I see what I can do: affordances of prospect; Is this thing working? The study of new affordances; I never forget a face: meaningful and useful representation of items; Textual markup for digital collections; The design of new interface tools; Conclusions; References; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.6.2011
Reihe/Serie	Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	521 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseführer
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► User Interfaces (HCI)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-4094-0422-6 / 1409404226
ISBN-13	978-1-4094-0422-4 / 9781409404224
Zustand	Neuware