those specific sections. Previous studies, bodystorming and interviews, revealed a well defined strategy of information retrieval on different media depending on the nature of the information need. In most cases, computers and internet-based search engines are used to learn very specific facts about a topic. Conversely, books are used in more detailed information retrieval. It is expected that this spatial manipulation will enact the possibility of getting more information about a semantic connection without the need of using a keyboard or mouse. 4. Automatic chunking—In the background, the system will perform automatic queries to match new materials similar to the ones chunked physically. Results will be shown as dotted nodes. As stated in the previous action, digital systems enable the possibility of giving detailed information about a topic. However, the possibility of statistically analysing a document is not reported to be used often in research. Therefore, this
interaction is planned to give users a more detailed view on the possibilities of a corpus, suggesting new semantic connections. 5. Rearranging—Once a chunk has been configured, the gesture of changing one book to another group will be interpreted as a request for reconfiguration. The book will be automatically shifted to the new corpus, which in turn will trigger a new TFID analysis. Insights collected in the interviews revealed that research is a complex activity, and is often difficult to characterise. Similarly, it was observed during the bodystorming session that the process of arranging and classifying information never stops. The semantic dimension being constructed through research is always evolving and reconfiguring. Therefore, this trait in the system would allow users to visualise how the different connections affects such semantic networks, yielding the possibility of fluidly explore new possibilities.
Narrative The video follows events associated with the inclusion of a new book in an existing information ecology. A researcher is portrayed to introduce the book This is not the end of the book by Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carrière (2012) in their research environment, and uses the Architectural User Interface to find how the new text fits into the existing semantic network. In the following section we analyse the scenes in detail:
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