INKE ID Conference 2014 will be held in September 18th to 20th at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Institute of Design in Chicago, USA, with the topic “Experimental Interfaces for Reading 2.0″. This conference will focus on some of the experimental human-computer interfaces that have been designed and, in some cases, prototyped for use with digital texts, images, and other media.
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John Montague and Luciano Frizzera are developing a cooperative game based on the work of DH practitioners, modeling the experience of researching and publishing in a multi-disciplinary academic environment. In The DH Experience, players collaborate to collect data from around the world, perform research and complete their projects in order to succeed, competing against time and the system inherent to the game.
The complete, tested paper prototype uses a fixed number of real world inspired projects. However, in order to have an ongoing relevance to the DH community, the digital version that is now under development will allow participating organizations to contribute their own projects, making the experience of the game more familiar and meaningful for players. In attempting to increase awareness of contemporary research and interdisciplinary collaboration, this project explores the utility of games as a means of increasing effective interaction within a community of non-game players.
Several of the INKE ID team members were participants in the INKE gathering at Whistler (Feb 5-6, 2014), where researchers and industry partners got together to talk about mutual interests around new knowledge environments. One of the flash talks (by Stan Ruecker) provided examples of 45-second videos that can be used to promote research.Here is the YouTube channel and also the videos themselves: Design Research. Including the ones that are not yet up on YouTube:Research Videos.
Feel free to try Wrkflux beta 2: http://labs.fluxo.art.br/wrkflux/
If liked it and found it usefully, or even if you did not liked it for any particular reason, or found a bug, please send us some feedback. We would love to hear your thoughts on this project.
On Oct 11, 2013, Stan Ruecker gave an invited one-hour presentation at Unisinos in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The topic was “Visualization for Design Project Management”, and a central element of the discussion was the wrkflx tool developed by Luciano Frizzera, Milena Radzikowska, and other members of the INKE ID research team. The purpose of the talk was to explore ways in which wrkflx can contribute to the problem of design project management, where existing visualization tools have sometimes been characterized as uncongenial. Comments from the audience have subsequently led to another significant repurposing of wrkflx, this time for the design of board games.
INKE ID members have a paper entitled “Visual workflow interfaces for editorial processes” published in the Literary and Linguist Computing (LLC). This paper was presented at DH 2012, in Hamburg, Germany, and later expanded and edited to be published.
Here is the abstract, reference and link to the article:
In this article, we provide a discussion of the concept of visual interactive workflows, how they relate to our previous work on structured surfaces, and how they have been adapted to experiments in managing articles for journal publication and managing biographical histories being written and tagged in XML. We conclude with a user experience study of the prototypes, which suggests that they are relatively acceptable at the level of reflective response, but might benefit from more iteration in their use of process and element metaphors.
Reference: Frizzera, L., Radzikowska, M., Roeder, G., Pena, E., Dobson, T., Ruecker, S., Rockwell, G., Brown, S., and The INKE Research Group. (2013). Visual workflow interfaces for editorial processes. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 28(3), 14. doi:10.1093/llc/fqt053
Link: http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/09/18/llc.fqt053.abstract
INKE ID members attended the annual DH conference, held this year in Lincoln, NE (USA), on July 16-19, 2013. Members presented a panel entitled “The Design of New Knowledge Environments,” speaking about year four projects of the ID team. Stan Ruecker introduced the INKE project and the design of new knowledge environment, followed by papers present by ID group members.
Dynamic Table of Contexts
Authors: Jennifer Windsor (speaker), Jennifer Windsor, Susan Brown, Brent Nelson, Milena Radzikowska, Stéfan Sinclair, and the INKE Research Group
Reading Skins: Voyant and Tool Aggregation
Authors: Geoffrey Rockwell (speaker), Stéfan Sinclair, and the INKE Research Group
The Tablet as a New Medium for Scholarly Editions
Authors: Atefeh Mohseni, Daniel Sondheim, Milena Radzikowska (speaker), Luciano Frizzera, Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker, and the INKE Research Group
Multi-Touch Surface as a Social Reading Environment for Variorum Edition
Authors: Luciano Frizzera (speaker), Sarah Vela, Mihaela Ilovan, Piotr Michura, Daniel Sondheim, Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker, and the INKE Research Group
Video demo:
Managing the Editorial Process: A Study of Workflow
Authors: Teresa Dobson, Geoff Roeder, Ernesto Peña, Elena Dergacheva, Susan Brown, Brooke Heller, Stan Ruecker (speaker) and the INKE Research Group
INKE ID members attended the annual CSDH/SCHN conference at Congress 2013 of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The conference was held in Victoria, BC, on June 02-05. Members presented a panel entitled “Touch-a touch-a touch-a touch me: Restoring materiality to the reader,” speaking about year four projects of the ID team. Led by an introduction about interface to touch, from Stan Ruecker and Geoffrey Rockwell, here are the titles of each paper that ID group presented:
1. The Unbearable Lightness of eReaders
Authors: Jennifer Windsor (speaker), Stan Ruecker, Brent Nelson, Susan Brown, Stéfan Sinclair and the INKE Research Group
2. Tangible Workflows: Feeling the flow of information
Authors: Tianyi Li (speaker), Luciano Frizzera, Milena Radzikowska, Stan Ruecker and the INKE Research Group
Video demo:
3. Manipulating Multiple Editions with the Multi-touch Variorum (MtV) Project
Authors: Sarah Vela, Luciano Frizzera, Mihaela Ilovan, Piotr Michura, Daniel Sondheim (speaker), Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker and the INKE Research Group
4. In Touch with E-Books
Authors: Atefeh Mohseni, Milena Radzikowska (speaker), Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker and the INKE Research Group
5. Touching the Physical World Through Mobile Pixels
Authors: Luciano Frizzera (speaker), Geoffrey Rockwell, Stan Ruecker and the INKE Research Group
Read more about this paper here: http://luciano.fluxo.art.br/2013/06/touching-the-physical-world-through-mobile-media/
In May 15, Luciano Frizzera give a talk by Skype at HackLabViz(x), event hosted Labic (Laboratorio de estudos sobre Imagem e Cibercultura – Cyberulture and Image studies Laboratory) at the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil. He gave an overview about INKE and the projects that it has being developing and introduced the idea of prototypes as an argument of academic research. He also demonstrated few text analysis tools and talked about the importance of criticizing the arguments made, and built-in, algorithms.
You can found the talk transcription here:
http://luciano.fluxo.art.br/2013/05/the-criticism-of-the-algorithm-understanding-the-metrics/
INKE ID members have been studying the interface changes of the Perseus project for over a year. The Perseus project is a digital library of materials and resources from ancient Greece through modern America. Established in 1987, the website now assembles digital collections of primary and secondary materials. We have recorded every big change to the Perseus interface using wayback machine, and have made inferences about what caused the changes. Last Friday we had a collaborative meeting with the runners of Perseus, Gregory Crane and Lisa Cerrato, and discussed the basic situation and inferences of early Perseus interfaces. Now Perseus is facing a new period of connection between Tufts and Leipzig, so this is a good time to take a look back, summarize the project’s history, and rethink its current design.
