2CO 2 internazional Conference, Tenerife 23-15 novembre 2017

1. A digital fllâneries into the documentation
of the Historical Italian Mind Science Archive.
Letizia Bollini, PhD
Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca

2. Aspi
Historical Italian
Mind Science Archive

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Mission
Mapping and studying the history of Italian
mind science since XIX century.
> People: the protagonists of the history of mind sciences
> Scientific storytelling: connecting people, archives’ do-
cuments and photo galleries
> Places: asylum and mental hospitals, research centers,
scientific associations
> The history of psychology journals
> The scientific equipments

4. 196
curated
bios
23
digitized
archives
111
registered
archives

5. Mind science in Milan area
The open archive
(2014-15)
—Regional Funded projects

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Complexity & competences
A trasndisciplinary approach
> Historians and archivists
> Psychologist, mind scientist & scholars
> Computer scientist
> User-centered/Ux/UI and visual designer

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Uni-Sign, 2009
Ji-Youn Kim, Soon-young Yang, Hwan-Ju Jeon
www.yankodesign.com
People

8. A user-centerd approach

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Expert walkthrough
Working with experts transferring knowledge
and cultural competencies to enable a broader
audience and guarantee a digital and cognitive
accessibility to historical documentation.

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connect
the protagonists
contextualize
the documents
relate
people and places

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User testing (ante)
Working with users to understand their
motivation, implicit needs, mental models
and to validate the user experience and design
hypothesis.

12. Information Architecture
& visualization

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The hierarchical model
> specilized
> vertical
> hierarchical
> deep
> focused on documents and archives
access and study of primary document sources

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Protagonists
A biographical note
Contextual navigation

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The explorative model
> horizontal
> flaneurie
> serendipity
> associative & relational
> focused on people/pleaces and relationships
random discovery or hypothesis validation

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Analisi ()
> Incontri di brief tecnico, strategico, di business/marketing, di
branding con il cliente e raccolta materiali
> Analisi delle strategie di web marketing e obiettivi di progetto
> Analisi della concorrenza o benchmarking
> Analisi del target e dell’utenza
> Analisi delle piattafome tecnologiche

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Protagonists
Digital flanuerie
Contextual navigation

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Visualization as a key to access
What
> show the context
> show the relationship
How
> visualizing connections
> qualifying and describing
> timiline based and georefenced

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People
Time
Place
The 3 pillars

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User test (post)
> 25 partecipants / 2 groups (5+5/15)
> 5 tasks: bio(1), correspondence (2), archive (3), mental ho-
spital (4), place activity (5)
> 2 modalities: hierarchy + exploration
> Efficiency: execution time
> Efficacy: completed tasks
> Satisfaction: final interview

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User test (post): efficiency
Time of execution
a. Hierarchical navigation
b. Explorative navigation
a.
b.

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User test (post): efficacy
> Visibility
> Feedback
> Constraints

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Conclusion
> Verify and asses design hypotesis
> Find experts/designer biasys and user mental models
> Foster research of accessible solutions
> Discover new design challenges and opportunities

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30. Letizia Bollini, PhD
Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca
letizia.bollini@unimib.it
www.lbollini.it
@extrasmallit