Part 1 of breakfast meeting about outcomes of Visual Navigation Project, on 15 June 2018 (more information: bit.ly/visualnavigationproject)

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

2. Today’s Program
• 09:00-09:05 Welcome (Live Rasmussen, Helge Mjelde)
• 09:05-09:40 Visual Navigation Project activities and
outcomes (Hugo C. Huurdeman)
• 09:40-10:15 Lightning talks about specific project outcomes
• Emnesøk and MESH (Dan Michael Heggø)
• The creative process of collaborating on touch
applications with students (Kyrre Traavik Låberg)
• Everything online: Visual Navigation Project outcomes on
the Web (Hugo Huurdeman)
• 10:15-10:30 Conclusion & discussion on future endeavors

3. image: https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/endless-shelves-zhongsuhge-hangzhou-bookstore-xl-muse

4. ‘Digital turn’
Gradual decline of physical access to books
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5. However, digital “impoverished” compared to physical
(Pomerantz & Marchionini, 2007)
Loss of open exploration, serendipity, immersion, touch
(McKay et al, 2017; Björneborn, 2008; Blandford et al, 2006)

6. Konsepter:
Increasing role of libraries as a social space
(Pomerantz & Marchionini, 2007)

7. Konsepter:
Increasing role of libraries as a social space
(Pomerantz & Marchionini, 2007)

8. Visual Navigation Project
“The collection in a new light”
— Bridging the gap between the visual experience of
physical libraries & digital libraries

9. Mikaela Aamodt | Dan Michael Heggø | Hugo Huurdeman | Helge Mjelde | Live Rasmussen | Heidi Rustad | Kyrre Låberg | Nina Thodesen
Visual Navigation Project
University of Oslo Library
bit.ly/VisualNavigationProject
in collaboration with Department of Informatics
by support of the National Library of Norway
start: Sept. 2016. duration two years
Three project streams…

10. Physical interaction (2)
Visualization (1)
Visual navigation
prototypes
Continuation (3)
Extended Emnesøk
interface
Enhanced data &
infrastructure
1. Visual Navigation
Create new interfaces f/visual book browsing and navigation, using infrastructure vocabularies
2. Physical Interaction
Explore novel interaction with library materials, e.g. via touch screen, touch table, etc.
3. Continuation and Extension
Extend subject search infrastructure and interface, add vocabularies

11. Sep. Okt. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun.
Prototyping
ideas d3
Initial
testing
Refine & adapt
to touch table
Design
HF
app
Deploymt.
HF app
Infrastructure
development
User
test
UI-old
S1: Visual
Navigation
S2: Physical
Interaction
S3: Continua-
tion & Extension Refine-
ment UI
& system
Design
Abel
app
Eval
1a
Eval
1b
Yaron Master project prototyping and testing
d3
familiarizati
on
creating website
Documentation
& outreach
weekly project reports
User
test
UI-new
Refine-
ment
Y. Final proto
VIRAK
work-
shop
LibCarp
work-
shop
Deploy
Abel
app
Proto-
typing
ideas
User
testing
Adaptation
(visual nav.)
VIRAK
submis-
sions
Present at Realf, HumS, Jur, Med,
Ledermøte, WebGrp, DigS,
MapProj,Alma/Oria, BibsysWG
Prepping
VIRAK
contribs
Test
Vis.
Nav
Apps
Prep.
demos
VIRAK
Eval
Eval
LibCarp
work-
shop
brain-
storms
INF2260 Bachelor project
Query
analysis Oria
Library
observations
Inter-
view
s
brain-
storm
s
Eva-
luate
year
1 of
pro-
ject
1. Rethink
2. Visualize
3. Connect
5. Document & share
4. Evaluate

12. 1. Rethink
picture: Colorbox
physical
library
digital
library
transaction log analysis (3)
observations (1), interviews (2)
brainstorms (4)usage

13. Rethink 1. observations
picture: UiO

14. Rethink 2. interviews
picture: Yaron Okun

15. Rethink 3. query analysis

16. see: Huurdeman, Aamodt & Heggø (2018)

17. see: Huurdeman, Aamodt & Heggø (2018)

18. see: Huurdeman, Aamodt & Heggø (2018)

19. Rethink 4. brainstorms

20. picture: Yaron Okun

21. picture: Yaron Okun

22. Searching
ExplorationGaming
Navigation
Personalization
Relaxation
Creation
Collabo-
ration
Simulations

23. Explorative studies
Lessons along the way… (1)
• Commonalities & differences (observ.)
• Encourage users to use library services (intvw.)
• “On the fence” - Stimulate curiosity, “surprise”
• Rethink "classical" library catalog interaction (query)
• Utilizing usage logs & data for improvement
• “Personalizing" approaches
• Support study & leisure (brainst.)
• “Collaborate, Create, Personalize, Explore, Simulate,
Relax, Search, Navigate”

24. 2. Visualize

25. geo terms, e.g. Oslo, Finnmark, Göttingen,
Lillehammer etc.
genres, e.g. Biografier,
Ungdomslitteratur, Humor
temporal terms, e.g. 1900-tallet, 1990-
tallet
topics, e.g. Biologi,
Matematikk
relations, e.g. broader, narrower,
exactMatch
Variety of (visual) exploration options! Specific to
each vocabulary
Visualize 1. opportunities

26. Visualize 2. data processing

27. Visualize 3. examples (D3)
Force-directed diagrams
relations: DDC numbers (size: Amazon rating)

29. Word Clouds
words: book abstracts
colors: ratings

30. Interactive bar graphs
color: DDC, size: Amazon rating

31. Scatterplots
horizontal: DDC, vertical: Amazon rating
Lessons along the way… (2)
• Importance of data
• Enrich existing catalog data (covers, abstracts)
• Utilize subject vocabularies & mappings
• Suitability data, visualization & screen size
• some visualizations don’t ‘fit’ the data
• some visualizations don’t ‘fit’ the screen
• Usefulness of existing frameworks to speedup
development
• For instance, D3
• Large contrast with existing library catalogs & systems
• Need for testing novel tools..

32. 3. Connect physical & digital
physical
library
digital
library
usage
physical
library 1. collections
2. events
3. exhibitions

33. Connect 1. collections
Star Wars & Dr. Who

34. Stream 2: Physical Interaction
• Stream 1 & 3 build on top of
existing work and infrastructure
• Approach Stream 2:
experiment with novel ways of
interaction in physical space
• with library’s book
collections
• experiments with a touch
table (Science Library)
• Includes an INF2260 project &
INF Master project Yaron Okun
Visualiza-
tion (1)
Picture: Marina Tofting
Star Wars & Dr. Who

35. picture: Yaron Okun
SciFi Explorer

36. Video: Yaron Okun
SciFi Explorer

37. SciFi Recommendation Station

38. 3. Connect
SciFi Recommendation Station

39. SciFi Recommendation Station (lite)

40. Picture: Simen Kjellin
• F
• D
• In
fo
• S
• O
Connect 2. events
Hidden Figures

41. Picture: Simen Kjellin
Hidden Figures

42. Hidden Figures

43. Abel Prize 2017 & 2018

44. Abel Prize 2017 & 2018

45. Biokonferansen 2017

46. PhD Day 2018

47. Connect 3. exhibitions
Bonnevie Exhibition 2018
see: http://www.muv.uio.no/publikumstjenester/arrangementer/apner-4.-mai:-professor-bonnevies-arkiv.html

48. Connect physical & digital
physical
library
digital
library
usage
physical
library 1. collections
2. events
3. exhibitions
4. integrative
}

49. Connect 4. integrative approaches
CollectionXplorer
prototype
data-driven approach
interactive visualizations using enriched catalog data

50. emnesøk
extending subject search tool

51.
Lessons along the way… (3)
• A new object in the library..!
• “What is it?” “A touch table?” “Is it a freezer?”
• …some encouragement needed
• “Touch me!” icon
• Opportunities for integrating apps into library space
• Discussing 10 examples of touch apps
• Collection-focused: Science Fiction
• Event-focused: Abel Prize, Hidden Figures, ..
• Exhibition-focused: Bonnevie
• Integrative approaches

52. 4. Evaluate

53. 4. Evaluate

54. 4. Evaluate
Picture: Simen Kjellin

55. how much time do people spend?
when do people interact?

56. 4. Evaluate
where do people touch?

57. where do people touch? (2)

59. ]

60. where do people touch? (2)

62. The event-based applications shown in reading room
and foyer were each used in 200-300 sessions
during a temporary exhibition of approx. 4 weeks.
How many people used the apps?
Variety of numbers
• depending on placement
(in foyer, reading room, sci-fi collection, exhibition)
• and placement duration
(usually 2-4 weeks, sometimes longer)

63. Note: ‘honey pot’ effect (Brignull & Rogers, 2003)
at times, multiple people use a touch app simultaneously
How many people used the apps?

64. Can a touch app increase collection use?
Before: 29 sci-fi loans (3 in touch app)
for a 3 week period:
After: 81 sci-fi loans (11 in touch app)
+279% (+366%) ;-)

65.
Lessons along the way… (4)
• Developing a “toolbox” for analytics b/o usage data
• microticks: gather data
• python scripts: automatically summarize data
• Monitoring and detecting issues
• navigation: “clicks leading to nowhere”, swipes
• Unused app content (depth vs breadth)
• (Re)designs based on usage data
• Substantial usage of touch apps
• 1.000+ sessions (for 6 apps w/logs in different locations)
• Increase* of use SciFi collection

66. 5. Document & share

67. 5. Document & share
Workshop at VIRAK (12 June ’17)
nominated for VIRAK
NYSKAPENDE prize

68. v
5. Document & share
Visualization Workshop (14 June ’17)

69. 5. Document & share
Touch App Workshop (20 Nov ’17)

70. 5. Document & share
Focus on open-source tools, sharing of code and datasets

71. to be published
Upcoming paper
5. Document & share
download: noril.uib.no

72. @BookNavigation
5. Document & share
bit.ly/VisualNavigationProject

73. • Project background
• Explorative studies
• Visualizing library (meta)data
• Connecting digital & physical
• Documenting & sharing
6. Conclusion

74. ?

75. • Lightning talks
• Extending Emnesøk (Dan Michael)
• Collaborations with students (Kyrre)
• Project outcomes online (Hugo)
• General learned lessons & conclusion
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