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On the 8th of March, an exclusive pre-screening of the movie “Hidden Figures” took place in the Science Library. Surrounding this event, we created and installed a touch table application within the library space, focusing on movie fragments, contextual information and related books.

To obtain insights into the actual use of this application, we gathered basic statistics. These statistics can help us to improve the application, to understand user behavior with respect to touch tables, and for future developments of novel applications in the physical library space. This post summarizes our findings, based on the first two weeks in which the touch table was installed in the library.

Keywords: User testing of application, Exhibition, Hidden Figures

Keywords: Applications, Hidden figures, Testing at HUMSAM

On the 8th of March, an exclusive pre-screening of the movie Hidden Figures takes place at the Science Library of the University of Oslo. To support this exciting event, we have designed an application for our touch table, now residing in an exhibition in the Science Library. This post outlines some of our experiences during the development and design of this application.

Keywords: Touch table app, Hidden Figures, Exhibition   

Keywords: XIMPEL, Interactive applications, Meetings with HUMSAM, Library carpentry workshop 

Keywords: Library Carpentry Workshop, Proposals for VIRAK, Mapping Activities

Keywords: Staff seminar, Law Library, Webpage updates, VIRAK conference

Touch tables can be a highly valuable addition to academic libraries, for instance to visualize a library's collection. In the Visual Navigation Project, we explored the needs and possibilities associated with touch tables. To discuss ideas with respect to innovative touch table use, we organized two brainstorm sessions, together with a Master student in Interaction Design.

Keywords: Virak proposals, library carpentry, website updates

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Keywords: Experiments with visualizations, Exploratory methods, Interactive bar chart, Network diagram, Word clouds, Maps, Scatterplots

Evidently, visualizing books is a pivotal goal of the Visual Navigation Project. In the last weeks of December, we have created an initial infrastructure for enriched book data. The past weeks, we have explored ways to visualize book records of the University of Oslo Library.

Keywords: New year, Visualizing book datasets, Data-Driven Documents, Organizing workshop

How can touch tables be used in a library setting? Well, for example to present a part of the library's collection. In the Visual Navigation Project, and in collaboration with the Department of Informatics, we are exploring potential uses of touch tables.

Keywords: Christmas, Testing RFID readers, Touch Table

Keywords: analysis of previous surveys, analysis of new studies, presentation of project

Keywords: SciFi application, touch table, brainstorm session, new ideas

Keywords: Amazon/LibraryThing dataset, Analysis of Vocabularies

Keywords: Mockups, Touch Table, Students Prototype

Unbeknownst to some, the Science Library has an extensive collection of Science Fiction books. To increase engagement with this collection, students interaction design embarked on a project to create a highly visual prototype application for use with a touch table. This prototype was recently evaluated in the actual library setting.

Keywords: Website updates, Primo and Alma analytics

Crowdsourcing is increasingly popular as a way to enrich the (meta)data of cultural heritage institutions, but also to increase audience engagement with heritage collections. On the 31st of October, we attended a workshop entitled Two birds, one stone: Bridging cultural heritage collections with crowds and niches, organized at the Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision. Various experts and researchers showed both the value and caveats of using crowdsourcing in an institutional setting.

The past decades have seen a transition from physical access to library materials to increasingly digital access. However, the experience of searching and browsing digital libraries is lacking many of the unique qualities of physical libraries, including opportunities for open exploration, serendipitous encounters and the tactile experience of handling items. The Visual Navigation Project aims to bridge the gap between the experience of the physical and digital library. This was done via three project streams, described next.