Making Data Tangible: A Cross-disciplinary Design Space for Data Physicalization

Bae, S. Sandra; Zheng, Clement; West, Mary Etta; Yi–Luen, Ellen; Huron, Samuel; Szafir, Danielle Albers

doi:10.1145/3491102.3501939

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“…The easiest way for these individuals to access data was usually to use physical entities and everyday objects, such as a measuring cup, handwritten checklist, or nutrition label, that supports scaffolding and self-paced exploration. Low-fi data physicalization [9,35,37] and other "unplugged" visualization techniques, such as Legos [62], kirigami [24], and knitting [59], may provide a more accessible means for people with IDD to develop a better data agency and engage with data. For example, creating visualizations with everyday materials through a constructionist approach [35] might help people with IDD create visualizations of daily activities or relevant tracking measures that could be used to communicate with caregivers or engage with data concepts in more familiar ways.…”

Section: Make Data Feel Personalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Data, Data, Everywhere: Uncovering Everyday Data Experiences for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

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Petersen

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Figure 1: People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) use personal data to make sense of everyday life. Participants with IDD most frequently used data to track activities of daily living (e.g., nutrition log, checklist, and everyday documentation); however, this data was often invisible to people despite being used in a variety of common scenarios, such as to advocate and shape treatment in healthcare applications. We synthesize limitations in existing approaches to working with data and opportunities for using visualization to enhance data accessibility for people with IDD. For example, participants and their caregivers identified a range of scenarios where data had significant potential to help people with cognitive and communicative impairments better participate in social and self-advocacy situations.

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Section: Make Data Feel Personalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Data, Data, Everywhere: Uncovering Everyday Data Experiences for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

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Petersen

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Due to the cross-disciplinary nature of physicalizations [8], we build upon past work in (i) interaction primitives in visualization, (ii) fabrication approaches used in physicalizations, (iii) network physicalizations, and (iv) fabrication techniques to create capacitive sensors within 3D printed objects.…”

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“…Separating form from interaction leads to a series of issues, including post-hoc instrumentation, the potential for conflicting constraints requiring costly design iterations, and a lack of generalizability across design instances. Most existing interaction infrastructures are designed for a specific implementation, resulting in one-off artifacts where the design insights and methods gained from a physicalization are specific to that instantiation [8,23]. Our methodology integrates sensing capabilities directly into a physicalization's form, enabling designers to concurrently consider form and interactivity.…”

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“…This procedure allows designers to use computational techniques to generate designs for physicalizations that would be otherwise difficult to manually create. 3D printing is a common digital fabrication technique used to make physicalizations [8,23]. With 3D printing, thin amounts of material are layered to produce an object with complex geometries (e.g., overhangs, lattices, and internal structures).…”

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“…Creating interactive physicalizations is challenging because it requires cross-disciplinary knowledge spanning visualization, fabrication, and electronics [8,23]. Visualization enables us to effectively represent data.…”

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Interaction is critical for data analysis and sensemaking. However, designing interactive physicalizations is challenging as it requires cross-disciplinary knowledge in visualization, fabrication, and electronics. Interactive physicalizations are typically produced in an unstructured manner, resulting in unique solutions for a specific dataset, problem, or interaction that cannot be easily extended or adapted to new scenarios or future physicalizations. To mitigate these challenges, we introduce a computational design pipeline to 3D print network physicalizations with integrated sensing capabilities. Networks are ubiquitous, yet their complex geometry also requires significant engineering considerations to provide intuitive, effective interactions for exploration. Using our pipeline, designers can readily produce network physicalizations supporting selection-the most critical atomic operation for interaction-by touch through capacitive sensing and computational inference. Our computational design pipeline introduces a new design paradigm by concurrently considering the form and interactivity of a physicalization into one cohesive fabrication workflow. We evaluate our approach using (i) computational evaluations, (ii) three usage scenarios focusing on general visualization tasks, and (iii) expert interviews. The design paradigm introduced by our pipeline can lower barriers to physicalization research, creation, and adoption.

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DataVisage: A Card-Based Design Workshop to Support Design Ideation on Data Physicalization

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Dong

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Making Data Tangible: A Cross-disciplinary Design Space for Data Physicalization

Cited by 45 publications

References 75 publications

Data, Data, Everywhere: Uncovering Everyday Data Experiences for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Data, Data, Everywhere: Uncovering Everyday Data Experiences for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

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DataVisage: A Card-Based Design Workshop to Support Design Ideation on Data Physicalization

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