txtkit - Visual Text Mining Tool

Schoenerwissen

Office for Computational Design

Key

In order to avoid an overview of a text we decided to merge data and user activity in a single but dynamic and variable model. txtvbot can not be seen as a new representation of the original text, it maps the continuous variation of thinking to a continuous development of form.

txtvbot displays events and content of the users actions in the txtshell and shows further information: visual properties like length and form, vectors and lines correspond to statistical and textual data as well as collaborative filtering.

txtvbot_scheme.png

KEYS ARE:
Movement
- arrow up (FORWARD)
- arrow down (BACKWARD)
- arrow left (LEFT)
- arrow right (RIGHT)
Rotation
- page up (UP)
- page down (DOWN)
- home (LEFT)
- end (RIGHT)
View
- v (SWITCH VIEW)
- r (RESET VIEW)

These functions are actived, if txtvbot - not txtshell! - is the active application. Click on txtvbot-icon or the desktop to activate it.

 

1

txtvbot displays the users actions and textual information as a series of events. Timestamps mark every user command.

txtvbot_events.png
 

2

Pink polygons represent how important a keyword, sentence or paragraph is. The more readers for a keyword, sentence or paragraph visited, the larger/darker the according vector is. txtkit calculates the relevance and adds red vectors to related items.

txtvbot_relevance.png
 

3

Single goto-items and related sentences are connected by a red curve.

txtvbot_connections.png
 

4

Users who read this paragraph also used these searchterms. (in brackets)

txtvbot_relations.png
 

5

txtvbot looks for similar subjects, so you could read some of it.

txtvbot_suggestion.png
 

6

Selected sentences and paragraphs are filled completely blue.

txtvbot_selection.png
 

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