This article aims to conceptualize a new communicative paradigm applied to academic scientific re... more This article aims to conceptualize a new communicative paradigm applied to academic scientific repositories. The publication and the querying of articles, papers, journals, books and other documents, are an integral part of the research process. However, the querying and information visualization process in a scientific academic repository, often proves to be inefficient, and a hard task, because the wide range of results hardly fits in the user's specific subject. In this sense, this paper highlights a problem that emerges from the user's relationship with an academic repository of scientific information. In particular, a problem that is related to the "object content" (results) that best suits the interests/user's specific subject. However, if we equate that this information is accessed by a significant number of users with a specific interest in a topic, and in the course of their research they handle a significant amount of information, it is then possible to consider the existence of a hierarchical and relational structure of evidences, that emerges from the relationship established between the various users and their specific interests and the querying performed. Therefore, it is fundamental to consider the user's experience and the leading role that it could represent in filtering information. The Information Visualization (InfoVis) techniques directed to knowledge networks also constitutes a fundamental approach. In this sense, this paper presents a brief analysis around major reference projects, which although based in the metric of article citations (impact factor), the primary goal lies in the visualization of an extensive citation structure and the relations established between the different scientific fields. However, based on the modus operandi of these visualization interfaces, the main objective of this paper is to propose a new approach, where the filtering and the visualization of information is based in the user's experience instead of the usual citation "object" centered approach.
6,849.32 new research journal articles are published every day. The exponential growth of Scienti... more 6,849.32 new research journal articles are published every day. The exponential growth of Scientific Knowledge Objects (SKOs) on the Web, makes searches time-consuming. Access to the right and relevant SKOs is vital for research, which calls for several topics, including the visualization of science dynamics. We present an interface model aimed to represent of the relations that emerge in the science social space dynamics, namely through the visualization and navigation of the relational structures between researchers, SKOs, knowledge domains, subdomains, and topics. This interface considers the relationship between the researcher who reads and shares the relevant articles and the researcher who wants to find the most relevant SKOs within a subject matter. This article presents the first iteration of the conceptualization process of the interface layout, its interactivity and visualization structures. It is essential to consider the hierarchical and relational structures/algorithms to represent the science social space dynamics. These structures are not being used as analysis tools, because it is not objective to show the linkage properties of these relationships. Instead, they are used as a means of representing, navigating and exploring these relationships. To sum up, this article provides a framework and fundamental guidelines for an interface layout that explores the social science space dynamics between the researcher who seeks relevant SKOs and the researchers who read and share them.
This article aims to conceptualize a new communicative paradigm applied to academic scientific re... more This article aims to conceptualize a new communicative paradigm applied to academic scientific repositories. The publication and the querying of articles, papers, journals, books and other documents, are an integral part of the research process. However, the querying and information visualization process in a scientific academic repository, often proves to be inefficient, and a hard task, because the wide range of results hardly fits in the user’s specific subject. In this sense, this paper highlights a problem that emerges from the user’s relationship with an academic repository of scientific information. In particular, a problem that is related to the “object content” (results) that best suits the interests/user’s specific subject. However, if we equate that this information is accessed by a significant number of users with a specific interest in a topic, and in the course of their research they handle a significant amount of information, it is then possible to consider the existe...
Libro de Actas - IV Congreso Internacional de Investigación en Artes Visuales. ANIAV 2019. Imagen [N] Visible, Jul 3, 2019
Universidade do Minho. Portugal. 4xiDraw Máquina de visualización de datos: la imagen creada desd... more Universidade do Minho. Portugal. 4xiDraw Máquina de visualización de datos: la imagen creada desde la información como práctica artística 4xiDraw Data visualization machine: the image created from information as an artistic practice
6,849.32 new research journal articles are published every day. The exponential growth of Scienti... more 6,849.32 new research journal articles are published every day. The exponential growth of Scientific Knowledge Objects (SKOs) on the Web, makes searches time-consuming. Access to the right and relevant SKOs is vital for research, which calls for several topics, including the visualization of science dynamics. We present an interface model aimed to represent of the relations that emerge in the science social space dynamics, namely through the visualization and navigation of the relational structures between researchers, SKOs, knowledge domains, subdomains, and topics. This interface considers the relationship between the researcher who reads and shares the relevant articles and the researcher who wants to find the most relevant SKOs within a subject matter. This article presents the first iteration of the conceptualization process of the interface layout, its interactivity and visualization structures. It is essential to consider the hierarchical and relational structures/algorithms to represent the science social space dynamics. These structures are not being used as analysis tools, because it is not objective to show the linkage properties of these relationships. Instead, they are used as a means of representing, navigating and exploring these relationships. To sum up, this article provides a framework and fundamental guidelines for an interface layout that explores the social science space dynamics between the researcher who seeks relevant SKOs and the researchers who read and share them.
Libro de Actas - Systems & Design: Beyond Processes and Thinking (IFDP - SD2016), 2016
The artifacts developed over several ages, such as libraries, encyclopedias, and databases, show ... more The artifacts developed over several ages, such as libraries, encyclopedias, and databases, show the cultural evolution of information systems. Compiling, organizing and visualizing information is a task carried out by mankind for thousands of years. The added difficulty in effectively communicating information in various sectors and services of our society reveals that an efficient communication of information is of the utmost importance in the current network society. The glut of information is directly related to the fact that the information that we are exposed, is not subject to a filtering and organization process. This reveals an urgency to develop strategies that not only prioritize the organization and searching, but also increase the efficiency of the communication process, in order to promote an efficient framework in the user’s cognitive and perceptual field. Therefore the task of designing complex information systems in an accessible manner, currently represents an imp...
Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the International Committee for Design History and Design Studies, 2014
This article aims to relate the current condition of contemporary society, the noninformation soc... more This article aims to relate the current condition of contemporary society, the noninformation society that is characterized by a ubiquitously multidirectional information flow, and an urgent need to induce reflection, intervention and repositioning by the Design discipline about this problematic. Given the increased difficulty in effectively communicating information in various sectors and services of our society, an efficient communication of data is a contradictory fact that the global networked society faces. In this sense, this article demonstrates that, designers are faced with the urgent task to rethink the existing processes of communication and information systems, but also develop new tools in order to search, filter, framework and efficiently visualize complex amounts of data. The task of understanding, conceptualizing and designing our complex information systems in a comprehensible and accessible manner, currently represents an important goal and a vast field of action. This paper shows the need to deepen the study about the emergent subject that is the field of Information Visualization. The work here presented is a starting point discussion on the subject, which aims to find a solution to the problem of the non-information contemporary society, focusing specifically on the importance of Information Visualization, in order to provide further reflections on the topic.
CIMED21 - I Congreso internacional de museos y estrategias digitales, 2021
A finales del siglo XX, los medialab, como laboratorios de investigación y producción transversal... more A finales del siglo XX, los medialab, como laboratorios de investigación y producción transversal y participativos, comenzaron a ser fundamentales dentro del contexto histórico y cultural del momento, como un símbolo claro del paso del constructo de acción individual hacia la colectiva. Del mismo modo, los centros ciudadanos comenzaron a emerger en el siglo siguiente como paradigma del fenómeno cultural. La génesis del concepto lab está en su diálogo directo con la sociedad, un laboratorio de medios, vinculado el contexto social en el que se imbrica. Colaboración y participación ciudadana, activismo social en un proceso de co-creación donde el propio ciudadano se empodera en la potestad de conformar el sentido que considera que deben tener las tecnologías de la comunicación. Él es protagonista de la conformación de la cultura digital, la cual le pertenece. ¿Y, no es esto en lo que se están convirtiendo o deberían convertirse los museos del siglo XXI y más, si desarrollan su activida...
This article aims to conceptualize a new communicative paradigm applied to academic scientific re... more This article aims to conceptualize a new communicative paradigm applied to academic scientific repositories. The publication and the querying of articles, papers, journals, books and other documents, are an integral part of the research process. However, the querying and information visualization process in a scientific academic repository, often proves to be inefficient, and a hard task, because the wide range of results hardly fits in the user's specific subject. In this sense, this paper highlights a problem that emerges from the user's relationship with an academic repository of scientific information. In particular, a problem that is related to the "object content" (results) that best suits the interests/user's specific subject. However, if we equate that this information is accessed by a significant number of users with a specific interest in a topic, and in the course of their research they handle a significant amount of information, it is then possible to consider the existence of a hierarchical and relational structure of evidences, that emerges from the relationship established between the various users and their specific interests and the querying performed. Therefore, it is fundamental to consider the user's experience and the leading role that it could represent in filtering information. The Information Visualization (InfoVis) techniques directed to knowledge networks also constitutes a fundamental approach. In this sense, this paper presents a brief analysis around major reference projects, which although based in the metric of article citations (impact factor), the primary goal lies in the visualization of an extensive citation structure and the relations established between the different scientific fields. However, based on the modus operandi of these visualization interfaces, the main objective of this paper is to propose a new approach, where the filtering and the visualization of information is based in the user's experience instead of the usual citation "object" centered approach.
6,849.32 new research journal articles are published every day. The exponential growth of Scienti... more 6,849.32 new research journal articles are published every day. The exponential growth of Scientific Knowledge Objects (SKOs) on the Web, makes searches time-consuming. Access to the right and relevant SKOs is vital for research, which calls for several topics, including the visualization of science dynamics. We present an interface model aimed to represent of the relations that emerge in the science social space dynamics, namely through the visualization and navigation of the relational structures between researchers, SKOs, knowledge domains, subdomains, and topics. This interface considers the relationship between the researcher who reads and shares the relevant articles and the researcher who wants to find the most relevant SKOs within a subject matter. This article presents the first iteration of the conceptualization process of the interface layout, its interactivity and visualization structures. It is essential to consider the hierarchical and relational structures/algorithms to represent the science social space dynamics. These structures are not being used as analysis tools, because it is not objective to show the linkage properties of these relationships. Instead, they are used as a means of representing, navigating and exploring these relationships. To sum up, this article provides a framework and fundamental guidelines for an interface layout that explores the social science space dynamics between the researcher who seeks relevant SKOs and the researchers who read and share them.
This article aims to conceptualize a new communicative paradigm applied to academic scientific re... more This article aims to conceptualize a new communicative paradigm applied to academic scientific repositories. The publication and the querying of articles, papers, journals, books and other documents, are an integral part of the research process. However, the querying and information visualization process in a scientific academic repository, often proves to be inefficient, and a hard task, because the wide range of results hardly fits in the user’s specific subject. In this sense, this paper highlights a problem that emerges from the user’s relationship with an academic repository of scientific information. In particular, a problem that is related to the “object content” (results) that best suits the interests/user’s specific subject. However, if we equate that this information is accessed by a significant number of users with a specific interest in a topic, and in the course of their research they handle a significant amount of information, it is then possible to consider the existe...
Libro de Actas - IV Congreso Internacional de Investigación en Artes Visuales. ANIAV 2019. Imagen [N] Visible, Jul 3, 2019
Universidade do Minho. Portugal. 4xiDraw Máquina de visualización de datos: la imagen creada desd... more Universidade do Minho. Portugal. 4xiDraw Máquina de visualización de datos: la imagen creada desde la información como práctica artística 4xiDraw Data visualization machine: the image created from information as an artistic practice
6,849.32 new research journal articles are published every day. The exponential growth of Scienti... more 6,849.32 new research journal articles are published every day. The exponential growth of Scientific Knowledge Objects (SKOs) on the Web, makes searches time-consuming. Access to the right and relevant SKOs is vital for research, which calls for several topics, including the visualization of science dynamics. We present an interface model aimed to represent of the relations that emerge in the science social space dynamics, namely through the visualization and navigation of the relational structures between researchers, SKOs, knowledge domains, subdomains, and topics. This interface considers the relationship between the researcher who reads and shares the relevant articles and the researcher who wants to find the most relevant SKOs within a subject matter. This article presents the first iteration of the conceptualization process of the interface layout, its interactivity and visualization structures. It is essential to consider the hierarchical and relational structures/algorithms to represent the science social space dynamics. These structures are not being used as analysis tools, because it is not objective to show the linkage properties of these relationships. Instead, they are used as a means of representing, navigating and exploring these relationships. To sum up, this article provides a framework and fundamental guidelines for an interface layout that explores the social science space dynamics between the researcher who seeks relevant SKOs and the researchers who read and share them.
Libro de Actas - Systems & Design: Beyond Processes and Thinking (IFDP - SD2016), 2016
The artifacts developed over several ages, such as libraries, encyclopedias, and databases, show ... more The artifacts developed over several ages, such as libraries, encyclopedias, and databases, show the cultural evolution of information systems. Compiling, organizing and visualizing information is a task carried out by mankind for thousands of years. The added difficulty in effectively communicating information in various sectors and services of our society reveals that an efficient communication of information is of the utmost importance in the current network society. The glut of information is directly related to the fact that the information that we are exposed, is not subject to a filtering and organization process. This reveals an urgency to develop strategies that not only prioritize the organization and searching, but also increase the efficiency of the communication process, in order to promote an efficient framework in the user’s cognitive and perceptual field. Therefore the task of designing complex information systems in an accessible manner, currently represents an imp...
Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the International Committee for Design History and Design Studies, 2014
This article aims to relate the current condition of contemporary society, the noninformation soc... more This article aims to relate the current condition of contemporary society, the noninformation society that is characterized by a ubiquitously multidirectional information flow, and an urgent need to induce reflection, intervention and repositioning by the Design discipline about this problematic. Given the increased difficulty in effectively communicating information in various sectors and services of our society, an efficient communication of data is a contradictory fact that the global networked society faces. In this sense, this article demonstrates that, designers are faced with the urgent task to rethink the existing processes of communication and information systems, but also develop new tools in order to search, filter, framework and efficiently visualize complex amounts of data. The task of understanding, conceptualizing and designing our complex information systems in a comprehensible and accessible manner, currently represents an important goal and a vast field of action. This paper shows the need to deepen the study about the emergent subject that is the field of Information Visualization. The work here presented is a starting point discussion on the subject, which aims to find a solution to the problem of the non-information contemporary society, focusing specifically on the importance of Information Visualization, in order to provide further reflections on the topic.
CIMED21 - I Congreso internacional de museos y estrategias digitales, 2021
A finales del siglo XX, los medialab, como laboratorios de investigación y producción transversal... more A finales del siglo XX, los medialab, como laboratorios de investigación y producción transversal y participativos, comenzaron a ser fundamentales dentro del contexto histórico y cultural del momento, como un símbolo claro del paso del constructo de acción individual hacia la colectiva. Del mismo modo, los centros ciudadanos comenzaron a emerger en el siglo siguiente como paradigma del fenómeno cultural. La génesis del concepto lab está en su diálogo directo con la sociedad, un laboratorio de medios, vinculado el contexto social en el que se imbrica. Colaboración y participación ciudadana, activismo social en un proceso de co-creación donde el propio ciudadano se empodera en la potestad de conformar el sentido que considera que deben tener las tecnologías de la comunicación. Él es protagonista de la conformación de la cultura digital, la cual le pertenece. ¿Y, no es esto en lo que se están convirtiendo o deberían convertirse los museos del siglo XXI y más, si desarrollan su activida...
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