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A Guided Tour of Literature Review: Facilitating Academic Paper Reading with Narrative Visualization

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VINCI '16: Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2968220.2968242

Published: 24 September 2016 Publication History

Abstract

Reading academic paper is a daily task for researchers and graduate students. However, reading effectively can be challenging, particularly for novices in scientific research. For example, when readers are reading the related work section that cites a fair number of references in limited page space, they often need to flip back and forth between the text and the references and may also frequently search elsewhere for more information about the references. This increases the difficulty of understanding a paper. In this paper, we propose a narrative visualization system that helps the reading of academic papers. As a first step, we adopt narrative visualization to present literature review as interactive slides. Specifically, we propose a narrative structure with three levels of granularities that the reader can drill down or roll up freely. The logic flow of a slideshow can be organized based on the paper's presentation or citations. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our system through several case studies and user studies. The results show that the system allows users to quickly track and glance related work, making paper reading more effective and enjoyable.

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DOI:10.1145/2968220

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