Exploring interactions with physically dynamic bar charts

Faisal Taher; John Hardy; Abhijit Karnik; Christian Weichel; Yvonne Jansen; Kasper Hornbæk; Jason Alexander

doi:10.1145/2702123.2702604

Exploring interactions with physically dynamic bar charts

Faisal Taher, John Hardy, Abhijit Karnik, Christian Weichel, Yvonne Jansen, Kasper Hornbæk, Jason Alexander

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

Visualizations such as bar charts help users reason about data, but are mostly screen-based, rarely physical, and almost never physical and dynamic. This paper investigates the role of physically dynamic bar charts and evaluates new interactions for exploring and working with datasets rendered in dynamic physical form. To facilitate our exploration we constructed a 10 × 10 interactive bar chart and designed interactions that supported fundamental visualisation tasks, specifically: Annotation, navigation, filtering, comparison, organization, and sorting. The interactions were evaluated in a user study with 17 participants. We identify the preferred methods of working with the data for each task (e.g. directly tapping rows to hide bars), highlight the strengths and limitations of working with physical data, and discuss the challenges of integrating the proposed interactions together into a larger data exploration system. In general, physical interactions were intuitive, informative, and enjoyable, paving the way for new explorations in physical data visualizations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Number of pages	10
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	18 Apr 2015
Pages	3237-3246
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-3145-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702604
Publication status	Published - 18 Apr 2015
Event	Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: CHI '15 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 18 Apr 2015 → 23 Apr 2015 Conference number: 33

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Conference	Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Number	33
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	18/04/2015 → 23/04/2015

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Exploring interactions with physically dynamic bar charts. / Taher, Faisal; Hardy, John; Karnik, Abhijit et al.

Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 3237-3246.

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Taher, F, Hardy, J, Karnik, A, Weichel, C, Jansen, Y, Hornbæk, K & Alexander, J 2015, Exploring interactions with physically dynamic bar charts. in Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 3237-3246, Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 18/04/2015. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702604

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