“…The transcripts show that the haptic and auditory modalities seem to heighten this sense of solicitation, as our participants recalled numerous episodes where they positioned themselves, or the probe to enhance their perception of the data representation; participants interacting with the visual probe did not employ these actions. While the HCI community has embraced the role of the human body in interaction design and cognition [31,33,36,37,38,43,55,63], the role of the body in data representation has received little attention, with notable exceptions [26,29]. Our findings suggest that representing data beyond the visual modality affords designers opportunities to promote full-body experiences of data; encouraging people to use their body in way that is not commonplace today with information visualizations.…”