Boundary Objects in Design Studies: Reflections on the Collaborative Creation of Isochrone Maps

Vuillemot, Romain; Rivière, Philippe; Beignon, Anaëlle; Tabard, Aurélien

doi:10.1111/cgf.14312

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“…Each prior paper had its own focus, and this backstory paper allows us to step back, think, and reflect. Our methodological approach might be similar to those suggested for design studies [43,47]. However, backed up by our sequels-our quantitative studies-we felt free to embrace a more narrative writing style than is typical.…”

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The Backstory to “Swaying the Public”: A Design Chronicle of Election Forecast Visualizations

Yang,

Cai,

Mortenson

et al. 2024

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In 2023, we submitted an IEEE VIS paper entitled “Swaying the Public? Impacts of Election Forecast Visualizations on Emotion, Trust, and Intention in the 2022 U.S. Midterms”, which was later bestowed with the honor of a best paper award. Yet, studying such a complex phenomenon required us to explore many more design paths than we could count, and certainly more than we could document in a single paper. This paper, then, is the unwritten prequel—the backstory. It chronicles our journey from a simple idea—to study visualizations for election forecasts—through obstacles such as developing meaningfully different, easy-to-understand forecast visualizations, crafting professional-looking forecasts, and grappling with how to study perceptions of the forecasts before, during, and after the 2022 U.S. midterm elections. This journey yielded a rich set of original knowledge. We formalized a design space for two-party election forecasts, navigating through dimensions like data transformations, visual channels, and types of animated narratives. Through qualitative evaluation of ten representative prototypes with 13 participants, we identiﬁed six core insights into the interpretation of uncertainty visualizations in a U.S. election context. These insights informed our revisions to remove ambiguity in our visual encodings and to prepare a professional-looking forecasting website. As part of this story, we also distilled challenges faced and design lessons learned to inform both designers and practitioners. Ultimately, we hope our methodical approach could inspire others in the community to tackle the hard problems inherent to designing and evaluating visualizations for the general public.

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The Backstory to “Swaying the Public”: A Design Chronicle of Election Forecast Visualizations

Yang,

Cai,

Mortenson

et al. 2024

Preprint

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“…Another important characteristic is the arrangement of how to operate and collaborate [109]. As Vuillemot et al [110] put it, "Groups can work on common objects locally, making them more tailored to their local use and needs, i.e., something that is not interdisciplinary, and then share it back in a way that works across the various groups". It is challenging to exactly predict how arrangement will look like, as several disciplines use the variables.…”

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Encoding Variables, Evaluation Criteria, and Evaluation Methods for Data Physicalisations: A Review

Ranasinghe

Degbelo

2023

MTI

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Data physicalisations, or physical visualisations, represent data physically, using variable properties of physical media. As an emerging area, Data physicalisation research needs conceptual foundations to support thinking about and designing new physical representations of data and evaluating them. Yet, it remains unclear at the moment (i) what encoding variables are at the designer’s disposal during the creation of physicalisations, (ii) what evaluation criteria could be useful, and (iii) what methods can be used to evaluate physicalisations. This article addresses these three questions through a narrative review and a systematic review. The narrative review draws on the literature from Information Visualisation, HCI and Cartography to provide a holistic view of encoding variables for data. The systematic review looks closely into the evaluation criteria and methods that can be used to evaluate data physicalisations. Both reviews offer a conceptual framework for researchers and designers interested in designing and evaluating data physicalisations. The framework can be used as a common vocabulary to describe physicalisations and to identify design opportunities. We also proposed a seven-stage model for designing and evaluating physical data representations. The model can be used to guide the design of physicalisations and ideate along the stages identified. The evaluation criteria and methods extracted during the work can inform the assessment of existing and future data physicalisation artefacts.

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Stories as Boundary Objects: Digital Storytelling with Migrant Communities for Heritage Discourses

Bala,

Nisi,

Nunes

2024

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Heritage is a dynamic concept, being constantly redefined by those that value it. Modern approaches to heritage bring focus to participatory processes that put communities at the centre of the heritage discourse. For migrant communities, these participatory processes can show the tension of integration versus identity, as migrants integrating into their host country can maintain, adapt or loose connections to their cultural identity. Digital storytelling platforms can offer space for exposing such tensions. In this paper, storytelling is adopted as a practice to engage three communities of migrants (with different socio-cultural contexts) on their relation to heritage. Through workshops, participants created 78 stories (accessible through a Digital Storytelling platform), which were thematically analysed. Using the concept of boundary objects, we discuss how participant's stories reflect heritage discourse and how they are entangled within the wider social, economic, and environmental context.

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Boundary Objects in Design Studies: Reflections on the Collaborative Creation of Isochrone Maps

Cited by 5 publications

References 32 publications

The Backstory to “Swaying the Public”: A Design Chronicle of Election Forecast Visualizations

The Backstory to “Swaying the Public”: A Design Chronicle of Election Forecast Visualizations

Encoding Variables, Evaluation Criteria, and Evaluation Methods for Data Physicalisations: A Review

Stories as Boundary Objects: Digital Storytelling with Migrant Communities for Heritage Discourses

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