Diagram Safari: A Visualization Literacy Game for Young Children

Gäbler, Johannes; Winkler, Christoph; Lengyel, Nóra; Aigner, Wolfgang; Stoiber, Christina; Wallner, Günter; Kriglstein, Simone

doi:10.1145/3341215.3356283

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“…Previous work in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) (e.g. [2,18,63,67]) has uncovered various approaches in developing data and visualisation literacy. One approach used and suggested is scaffolding, e.g.…”

Section: Related Work 21 Data Literacy and Data Physicalisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

What is Data? - Exploring the Meaning of Data in Data Physicalisation Teaching

Koningsbruggen

Waldschütz

Hornecker

2022

Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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A growing body of work focuses on physicalisations based on personal, everyday data. Despite growing interest, little is known about how to educate people on their creation. We designed a teaching method of 'Data Diaries', which consists of five representation assignments that move from visualising to physicalising personal data. The Data Diaries were used in a semester project, with the aim of creating an interactive physicalisation. We analysed the Data Diaries, written reports, and participant interviews. Our analysis shows that people need to overcome the challenge of using materiality to communicate data, which happens in four stages. Moreover, the materiality made participants realise that physicalisations do not focus on efficiency and accuracy, but on the story of the data, by referring to its origin, use of personal mappings, and reduction. As physicalisations blur the line between quantitative and qualitative, designing them engenders a change in our notion of 'data'. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in HCI; HCI theory, concepts and models.

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Section: Related Work 21 Data Literacy and Data Physicalisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

What is Data? - Exploring the Meaning of Data in Data Physicalisation Teaching

Koningsbruggen

Waldschütz

Hornecker

2022

Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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“…Though there is more work to do, the last few years has seen a surge of interest in children's visual literacy [24,25,34]. There are now pedagogical guidelines and instructional implications drawn from assessing student visualization comprehension and partnering with education researchers [60].…”

Section: Children's Graphical Understandingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Researchers have tried various approaches from running workshops with tangible objects to creating games [34,58]. The games and tools created to teach visual literacy draw on a variety of strategies, from constructionist approaches to role playing [2,4,25]. This raises an important issue in visualization literacy, which is how to best teach students about visualization.…”

Section: Children's Graphical Understandingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Juvenile Graphical Perception: A Comparison between Children and Adults

Panavas¹

2022

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Data visualization is pervasive in the lives of children as they en-counter graphs and charts in early education and online media.In spite of this prevalence, our guidelines and understanding ofhow children perceive graphs stem primarily from studies con-ducted with adults. Previous psychology and education researchindicates that children’s cognitive abilities are different from adults.Therefore, we conducted a classic graphical perception study on apopulation of children aged 8–12 enrolled in the Ivy After SchoolProgram in Boston, MA and adult computer science students en-rolled in Northeastern University to determine how accuratelyparticipants judge differences in particular graphical encodings. We record the accuracy of participants’ answers for five encodingsmost commonly used with quantitative data. The results of ourcontrolled experiment show that children have remarkably similargraphical perception to adults, but are consistently less accurateat interpreting the visual encodings. We found similar effective-ness rankings, relative differences in error between the differentencodings, and patterns of bias across encoding types. Based on ourfindings, we provide design guidelines and recommendations forcreating visualizations for children. This paper and all supplementalmaterials are available at https://osf.io/ygrdv.

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“…Interest in gamification has spawned a variety of educational games, covering broad range of topics such as physics [61] and music [60]. In visualization, there exists educational games focused on bar charts [40] and scatter plots [86], as well as non-educational games inspired by infographics [6]. Yet, despite the variety of genres and mechanics seen in commercial games, we observe that many of these educational games tend to focus on repetitive gameplay: players may be asked to complete a set of mathematical computations within a specified amount of time, or need to come up with a configuration to satisfy constraints for a particular level.…”

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“…Players are permitted (without penalty) to make choices until they choose the correct answer, after which the Activity View ends and the next view is loaded. The Activity View is typical of many educational games [40,60,61,86], where puzzles are presented in sequence without a narrative connecting them together.…”

Section: Game Designmentioning

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Designing Narrative-Focused Role-Playing Games for Visualization Literacy in Young Children

Huynh¹,

Nyhout²,

Ganea³

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Fig. 1. Sample screenshots from our educational role-playing game (RPG) to support visualization literacy education at ages 11 -13. Our game encompasses data-related problems involving visualizations that young learners are required to solve to make progress in the game. Players must first indicate the right graph to solve the problem (a), and then interpret the selected graph to answer a question (b). In this work, we investigate the effect of incorporating narrative elements on learning and engagement (c).

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Diagram Safari: A Visualization Literacy Game for Young Children

Cited by 20 publications

References 14 publications

What is Data? - Exploring the Meaning of Data in Data Physicalisation Teaching

What is Data? - Exploring the Meaning of Data in Data Physicalisation Teaching

Juvenile Graphical Perception: A Comparison between Children and Adults

Designing Narrative-Focused Role-Playing Games for Visualization Literacy in Young Children

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