Communication Design and the Digital Humanities - Visualizations and Interfaces for Humanities Research

This paper presents an ongoing research focused on understanding the role that design,especially through the definition of information visualizations and interfaces, can have withindigital humanities research. A review of the current involvement of design within the digitalhumanities is provided and several projects, coming from a two-year collaboration within adigital humanities initiative, are then presented and discussed in detail, with particular attentionto the design processes involved. Finally, a collaborative model for research is articulated,emphasizing the need for new hybridized forms of thinking and making between designers,scholars and computer scientists