Abstract
We present a web-based environment that connects annotation, abstraction, and argumentation during the interpretation of text. As a visual interface for scholarly reading and writing, Textarium combines human analysis with lightweight computational processing to bridge close and distant reading practices. Readers can highlight text, group keywords into concepts, and embed these observations as anchors in essays. The interface renders these interpretive actions as parameterized visualization states. Through a speculative design process of co-creative and iterative prototyping, we developed a reading-writing approach that makes interpretive processes transparent and shareable within digital narratives.
Abstract (translated)
我们提出了一种基于网页的环境，该环境在解释文本时将标注、抽象和论辩连接起来。作为学术阅读与写作的可视化界面，Textarium 结合了人类分析和轻量级计算处理，以弥合细读（close reading）和远读（distant reading）实践之间的差距。读者可以在文本中标记重点，将关键词分组成概念，并在论文中嵌入这些观察结果作为锚点。该界面将这些解释性行为呈现为参数化的可视化状态。通过协同创造和迭代原型设计的推测性设计过程，我们开发了一种阅读写作方法，使解释过程在网络叙事中透明化并可分享。
URL
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13191
