UX14 - The Book Surfer (Kiruthika Mani)

An endeavor to make the act of referring library books a lot easier.

Today, with the Web, students access information anytime, anywhere. They tend to surf the web for academic research. They pass over library books for quicker and easier results from the internet, thereby losing out on a lot of qualitative information.

This concept tries to introduce the act of ‘surfing’ into the context of a library. It attempts to ease the students’ mode of research. With this, the students would navigate a book’s content the way they would the web. The concept also tries to alleviate the isolated nature of library research by creating a digital bridge between readers of the same book.

This is achieved by creating another version of the book – an infographic version. Infographics clearly and succinctly communicate the essence of any notion/information. An infographic version of a book attempts the same – for the book. The library would contain infographic versions for each of their books. Students can surf through these and also contribute.

The result is a combination of the wealth of information from surfing and the depth of information from a book. There is also the advantage of this whole activity being communal.

Transcript

1. THE BOOK SURFER
   The dra /abstract form of the presentation is being sent due to IP concerns.
   KIRUTHIKA M
   Guides
   Mr. SUDHAKAR
   Ms. SEEMA
   DJ Academy of Design
   

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2. PREMISE
   PLACE PEOPLE
   Academic Libraries
   Reference Libraries
   Students
   Research Scholars
   Teachers
   Librarians
   

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3. SCOPE
   WHAT’S HAPPENING WHAT WE WANT TO DO
   User
   What he needs to know
   User
   What he needs to know
   INTERNET SURFING
   (+) Quick, Easy, Wide, Social
   (-) Meandering, Unreliable
   REFERRING BOOKS
   (+) Time consuming, Exhaustive, Isolated
   (-) Deep, Reliable, Qualitative
   The expansive, social character of the internet
   +
   The depth and reliability of a book
   

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4. NATURE NEEDS
   TARGET USERS
   Curious
   Fast paced
   Tech-savvy
   Impatient
   Easily Distracted
   Information
   Context Sensitivity
   Ease of Understanding
   Ease of Access
   Ease of Use
   

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5. OBJECTIVES
   1 2 3
   To create the ‘surf’
   mode of navigation
   To capture the
   crux of a book
   To make it
   communal
   SEAMLESS . ACCESSIBLE
   

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6. THE CONCEPT
   A new way of looking at books
   An infographic for each book
   Where people can contribute to the infographic
   An ever expanding, communcal framework of relevant info from one book
   YOU SURF THE BOOK, YOU DON’T READ IT.
   THE USER IS BOTH RESEARCHER AND CONTRIBUTOR
   

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7. FEATURE MAP
   / X
   Dynamic filters allow you to see
   what you want to see. Only text/
   images, view reader input, etc.
   An outer infographic web
   of additional pertinent content
   from the book - from other readers.
   An infographic web of the book’s
   most defining text excerpts and
   images.
   You can show approval or
   advocate input from a reader.
   The most approved inputs will
   be displayed first.
   If you have additional input
   related to the book, you can
   insert it as a note.
   You can insert pertinent
   information from the book that
   you think are important.
   Flagging / bookmarking
   the infographic
   

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8. SOLUTION
   THE INFOGRAPHIC LANGUAGE THAT CAN BE APPLIED FOR ANY BOOK
   + =
   The Contents page
   of a book giving
   snippets of information
   Bar graphs
   to represent
   relative importance
   Snippets of information
   presented with their
   relative importance
   This is an abstract, simplified representation of the solution
   

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9. DJ Academy of Design
   

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