Part 3 of breakfast meeting about outcomes of Visual Navigation Project, on 15 June 2018 (more information: bit.ly/visualnavigationproject)

1. Breakfast meeting
Part 3:
Lessons along the journey…

2. General outcomes
• Applications
• how can we categorize created
applications?
• Guides & Tutorials
• how to create apps, visualize
library-related data?
• Reports & Papers
• what can we learn theoretically &
practically?
• Supportive Tools &
Datasets
• which tools & datasets can assist?

3. The collection in a
new light..
• The project has shown that more visual
approaches to navigation are feasible
• That they bring considerable
numbers of users in contact with
digital & physical collections
• Thus, these approaches can bring the collection
in a new light

4. The Value of…
1. Exploration
2. Data
3. Collaboration
4. Documentation & reuse
5. User Experience
6. Content

5. 1. Value of exploration

6. 1. Importance of exploration
• Traditional user studies
• Observations, surveys, transaction log study
• ‘Out of the box’ inspiration via open-ended
studies
• brainstorms, gigamapping, interviews

7. 2. Importance of data
• Metadata: Use and enrichment
• subject headings, classification, external data
• covers, abstracts, …
• Usage statistics
• Oria
• Custom-made tools (e.g. touch apps)

8. 3. Importance of
collaboration
• Relatively small project team (FTEs), but
• Collaboration subject specialists, event
organisers, designers, .. “everything in-house”
• “Library of our imagination” (motivation)
• Collaboration w/ informatics (int. design)
• Inspiration students
• Support of student projects (see e.g. Culen & Gasparini, 2015)

9. Examples: Collaboration
Book Motion (2013)
Real Fiction (2017)

10. 4. Value of documentation &
reuse
• Community building
• Updates via website, social media
• Sharing code via Github (scriptotek)
• Meetups & workshops for outreach and teaching
• Pragmatic approach - ‘Not reinventing the wheel’
• Purchase modules (eg pdf-reader), if needed
• Use of frameworks (e.g. XIMPEL.net)

11. 5. Value of UX
• “Nothing is as self-evident as it seems”
• E.g. user expectations, unclear navigation
• Before release: user testing
• After release: keep monitoring possible issues
•

13. 5. Belang van UX
• “Nothing is as self-evident as it seems”
• E.g. user expectations, unclear navigation
• Before release: user testing
• After release: keep monitoring possible issues
• Challenge: Optimizing for “first interaction”
• Goal of app, target audience
• “Attract screen”, app structure

14. …optimizing…
Higher depth of interaction in optimized apps

15. 6. Value of Content
• Appropriately dynamic content
• frequent shifting of applications
• retain curiosity in applications & touch
table
• Appropriately relevant content
• Relevant to interests, study, level, etc.
• Opportunity: personalization

16. Personalization
Touch Table
BookLibrary card
RFID
Obj

17. The Value of…
1. Exploration
2. Data
3. Collaboration
4. Documentation & reuse
5. User Experience
6. Content
Opportunity: library is the perfect place for all this!

18. “It is still possible to dream..”

19. “It is still possible to dream..”

20. ..big thanks!
• University of Oslo Library:
• Live Rasmussen, Helge Mjelde, Heidi Rustad
• Nina Thodesen, Mikaela Aamodt @ Med Lib
• Dan Michael Heggø, Kyrre Traavik Låberg @ Science Lib
• all UB colleagues, also at Digital Services, HumSam & Law Libraries
• University of Oslo
• Interaction Design students, Alma Culén
• All study participants
• All other collaborating colleagues, and departments
• National Library of Norway
• XIMPEL.net
• Winoe Bhikharie

21. ?

22. Want to know more?
• More project info at bit.ly/visualnavigationproject
• (ub.uio.no/om/prosjekter/the-visualisation-project/)

23. References
• Björneborn, L. (2008). Serendipity dimensions and users’ information behaviour in the physical
library interface. Information Research.
• Blandford, A., Rimmer, J., & Warwick, C. (2006). Experiences of the library in the digital age.
Presented at the Third International Conference “Cultural Convergence and Digital Technology”.
• Brignull, H., & Rogers, Y. (2003). Enticing People to Interact with Large Public Displays in Public
Spaces (pp. 17–24). INTERACT’03, IOS Press.
• Culén, A. L., & Gasparini, A. A. (2015). HCI and Design Thinking: Effects on Innovation in the
Academic Library. In Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer Vision and Image Processing
(pp. 3–10).
• Huurdeman, H. C., Aamodt, M., & Heggø, D. M. (2018). “More than Meets the Eye” - Analyzing the
Success of User Queries in Oria. Nordic Journal of Information Literacy in Higher Education, 10(1),
18–36.
• McKay, D., Chang, S., & Smith, W. (2017). Manoeuvres in the Dark: Design Implications of the
Physical Mechanics of Library Shelf Browsing. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on
Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp. 47–56). New York, NY, USA: ACM.
• Okun, Y. (2017). Design for nysgjerrighet: hvordan gjøre realfagstudenter nysgjerrige på science
fiction? (Master’s Thesis). University of Oslo, Oslo.
• Pomerantz, J., & Marchionini, G. (2007). The digital library as place. Journal of Documentation,
63(4), 505–533.

24. Mikaela Aamodt | Dan Michael Heggø | Hugo Huurdeman | Helge Mjelde | Live Rasmussen | Heidi Rustad | Kyrre Låberg | Nina Thodesen
University of Oslo Library
bit.ly/VisualNavigationProject
Breakfast meeting: Project Outcomes
Presentation by Hugo C. Huurdeman, 15 June, 2018