Bayani mai ban sha'awa

An fara amfani da kalmar "bayani mai bincike" a lokacin da Peter Brusilovsky ya rubuta wani takarda a shekarar 1994, [1] amma bai fara amfani da ita ba har zuwa 2011, lokacin da Bret Victor ya buga wani rubutu mai suna [2] (rubutun ya haɗa da bayani mai zurfi game da matattarar dijital ). Victor ya bambanta bayanai masu bincike daga kayan aikin sadarwa da zane-zane masu hulɗa da aka keɓe ta hanyar cewa da gangan suke jagorantar hankalin masu sauraronsu zuwa ga wasu abubuwan da suka faru a cikin kwaikwayon. Wajen bayyana ra'ayin, Victor ya bayyana: [2]

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Brusilovsky, Peter (1994), "Explanatory visualization in an educational programming environment: Connecting examples with general knowledge", Human-Computer Interaction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 876, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 202–212, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.160.9141, doi:10.1007/3-540-58648-2_38, ISBN 978-3-540-58648-7