Through a design study, we develop an approach to data exploration that utilizes elastic visualizations designed to support varying degrees of detail and abstraction. Examining the notions of scalability and elasticity in interactive visualizations, we introduce a visualization of personal reading traces such as marginalia or markings inside the reference library of German realist author Theodor Fontane. To explore such a rich and extensive collection, meaningful visual forms of abstraction and detail are as important as the transitions between those states. Following a growing research interest in the role of fluid interactivity and animations between views, we are particularly interested in the potential of carefully designed transitions and consistent representations across scales. The resulting prototype addresses humanistic research questions about the interplay of distant and close reading with visualization research on continuous navigation along several granularity levels, using scrolling as one of the main interaction mechanisms. In addition to presenting the design process and resulting prototype, we present findings from a qualitative evaluation of the tool, which suggest that bridging between distant and close views can enhance exploration, but that transitions between views need to be crafted very carefully to facilitate comprehension.

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阅读痕迹：文化遗产数据弹性可视化的可扩展探索

通过设计研究，我们开发了一种数据探索方法，该方法利用旨在支持不同程度的细节和抽象的弹性可视化。检查交互式可视化中可扩展性和弹性的概念，我们引入了个人阅读痕迹的可视化，例如德国现实主义作家 Theodor Fontane 的参考图书馆内的边缘或标记。为了探索如此丰富而广泛的收藏，抽象和细节的有意义的视觉形式与这些状态之间的转换一样重要。随着对视图之间的流体交互性和动画作用的研究兴趣日益浓厚，我们对精心设计的过渡和跨尺度一致表示的潜力特别感兴趣。由此产生的原型解决了有关远距离和近距离阅读相互作用的人文研究问题，以及对沿多个粒度级别的连续导航的可视化研究，使用滚动作为主要交互机制之一。除了展示设计过程和生成的原型之外，我们还展示了对该工具进行定性评估的结果，这表明远景和近景之间的桥接可以增强探索，但需要非常仔细地设计视图之间的过渡以促进理解。