Exploring the challenges of making data physical

Jason Alexander; Yvonne Jansen; Kasper Hornbæk; Johan Kildal; Abhijit Karnik

doi:10.1145/2702613.2702659

Exploring the challenges of making data physical

Jason Alexander, Yvonne Jansen, Kasper Hornbæk, Johan Kildal, Abhijit Karnik

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

Physical representations of data have existed for thousands of years. However, it is only now that advances in digital fabrication, actuated tangible interfaces, and shape-changing displays can support the emerging area of 'Data Physicalization': the study of computer-supported, physical representations of data and their support for cognition, communication, learning, problem solving and decision making. As physical artifacts, data physicalizations can tap more deeply into our perceptual exploration skills than classical computer setups, while their dynamic physicality alleviates some of the main drawbacks of static artifacts by facilitating their crafting, supporting adaptation to different data, and encouraging sharing between different users. The exploration of physicalizations poses a set of unique multi-disciplinary challenges: design, technical implementation, interaction, and evaluation. The primary goal of this workshop is to bring together practitioners from a diverse range of communities to explore the challenges in 'making data physical' and to set a research roadmap for the next years.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI EA '15 : proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Number of pages	4
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2015
Pages	2417-2420
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-3146-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2702659
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 18 Apr 2015 → 23 Apr 2015

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Conference	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	18/04/2015 → 23/04/2015
Sponsor	ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI)

Keywords

Data Physicalization
Information visualisation
Shape-changing display
Tangible user interface

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Exploring the challenges of making data physical. / Alexander, Jason; Jansen, Yvonne; Hornbæk, Kasper et al.
CHI EA '15: proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 2417-2420.

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Alexander, J, Jansen, Y, Hornbæk, K, Kildal, J & Karnik, A 2015, Exploring the challenges of making data physical. in CHI EA '15: proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 2417-2420, 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 18/04/2015. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2702659

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