Bibly – Visualizing Information Trails in the Bible
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The Bible is an epic account of humanity with a profound cultural influence and significance. For thousands of years, reading and interpreting the Bible has been a topic of great interest in religious, academic, and general public circles alike. However, the Bible as a physical document is unwieldy: with 40 authors 66 chapters, and over 700,000 words, it is difficult — even for experts — to traverse methodically. Without a higher-level view of the Bible, trends and themes are hidden behind pages. Organizational meta-data such as books and key events that could serve as strong navigational cues are similarly tethered to pages, and are not leveraged to their fullest potential. In this paper, we outline the key tasks that navigating the Bible entails. Specifically, we interview seminary students and pastors to see how they search for information in the Bible, and what kinds tasks, tools, and pain points they encounter. We synthesize this with information foraging theory, text visualization techniques, and interaction, all of which lend structure to information traversal. From there, our challenge becomes clear: we need a single interface that supports search, multiple zoom resolutions, granularities, and comparisons across different contexts, all while providing a contextual meta-data information trail for rapid exploration. Finally, we present and analyze Bibly, the tool we built to address this problem, and the new interaction paradigms it introduces. Author
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تاریخ انتشار 2012