Excerpt WIP #2: from PDFs.
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I'm curious: are you considering an interaction which would allow you to rapidly view the original document in context from an excerpt?
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Yes indeed! Maybe you remember the "wormhole" interaction from our research prototype (inkandswitch.com/muse-studio-fo). The production version of this will look quite different but serve a similar purpose.
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Any suggestions or wishes on how this would work?
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My instinct is that continuous interaction/states may be interesting here.
I just need to peek slightly at the surrounding contents to orient myself ->
I want to expand the excerpt to include more of the surroundings ->
Parallel reading, etc...
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Yes, this demonstrates some key interactions, I think (nice work)! Scrollability, resizability, navigability… much will depend on the details of the implementation. I suspect something magic happens when it's as smooth and effortless as pinching in/out of a map.
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But I think there may also be something to semi-modes, to navigation hierarchies/stacks. The best of Apple's peek/pop (RIP) really did this for me: continuous, incremental interaction from excerpt to viewing surrounding context to navigation, integrated with a stack.
Ahhh wish I could experience that interaction! Totally agree the devil is in the details of the interaction. Pondering 's thoughts on the richness of manual interaction: worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTh
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The metaphors of peeking, peripheral vision, I think, are stronger than just metaphors: I think they contain essential principles of interaction that we haven't quite figured out how to get just quite right in a digital medium, at least for the problems I'm working on.
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Reminded of another ex. of "incremental contextual exploration" interaction in qualitative analysis software like : help-nv11.qsrinternational.com/desktop/deep_c (though it's more discrete than continuous)
Not a coincidence there's a thriving niche of ppl repurposing it for lit reviewing!
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