A Designer Embedded Book Space Experiment

The relationship between books and their readers are intimacy and personal. The texts are firsthand resources for readers experience personal journey while reading, and their own unparalleled inspiration. The reflection after reading could be represented in diverse fashions, most of them were written using words as reviews. Visualization of the book experience is another presentation are used as the interpretation by designers that are often belonged to designers’ own collection. With these reflections, a single story allowed widening imaginaries and extended values. Sharing such unique presentation requires a unique setting. How to create and what are such interactive reading spaces, called Muse Space in a co-existing fashion in both physical bookshop and the collective drawing space associated with it is the problem this project wants to explore. Muse Space is comprised of three layers: physical environment, collective drawing space for visualization of book-inspired drawing and association and interactive tools for creating the book-inspired drawing are examined and analyzed in three research steps, namely (1) persona and journey map for contextual inquiry and requirement for physical and virtual spaces; (2) scenario planning for interactive behaviors of user centered installation design; and (3) information visualization for visual cue and feedback of collective drawing. Part of Muse Space’s system had displayed and been test by several kinds of target users, with their feedback we could identify that Muse Space creates opportunities for readers to learn more knowledges from not only books but also other readers feedbacks and how to emphasize independent bookstores’ superiorities with interactive tools.