Abstract
The principal objective of WG 6 is to explore the application of visualization and interaction design to the challenges involved in standardizing, browsing, analysing, and understanding the unprecedented quantity of epistolary data and metadata potentially brought together on the digital infrastructure envisaged by the Action. After studying the results of previous work and the strategies for co-designing a next-generation research environment (I), the core task of WG 6 will to conceptualize and specify a new generation of visualization tools applicable to all stages of the process of working with epistolary materials (II). The group’s secondary task is to consider the enhancement of this core infrastructure with means of communicating both the scholarly and the technical interest of the Action to a variety of different audiences, within (III) and especially beyond (IV) the academy. These four main tasks are outlined in more detail in the agenda below.
WG 6 is lead by Paolo Ciuccarelli, an Associate Professor at the Department of Design of the Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and Scientific Director of its DensityDesign Research Lab.