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Data physicalization is gaining popularity in public and educational contexts due to its potential to make abstract data more tangible and understandable. Despite its growing use, there remains a significant gap in our understanding of how…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Yanxin Wang , Yihan Liu , Lingyun Yu , Chengtao Ji , Yu Liu

Mathematically representing the shape of an object is a key ingredient for solving inverse rendering problems. Explicit representations like meshes are efficient to render in a differentiable fashion but have difficulties handling topology…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Guangyan Cai , Kai Yan , Zhao Dong , Ioannis Gkioulekas , Shuang Zhao

In this paper, we provide an overview of our attempts to harness data physicalizations as pedagogical tools for enhancing the understanding of visual channels. We first elaborate the research goals that we have crafted for the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Siqi Xie , Yu Liu , Lingyun Yu

Time series data are prevalent across various domains and often encompass large datasets containing multiple time-dependent features in each sample. Exploring time-varying data is critical for data science practitioners aiming to understand…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Evandro S. Ortigossa , Fábio F. Dias , Diego C. Nascimento , Luis Gustavo Nonato

Teaching and advocating data visualization are among the most important activities in the visualization community. With growing interest in data analysis from business and science professionals, data visualization courses attract students…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Leo Yu-Ho Lo , Yao Ming , Huamin Qu

Visualization, as a vibrant field for researchers, practitioners, and higher educational institutions, is growing and evolving very rapidly. Tremendous progress has been made since 1987, the year often cited as the beginning of data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Xiaoxiao Liu , Mohammad Alharbi , Joe Best , Jian Chen , Alexandra Diehl , Elif Firat , Dylan Rees , Qiru Wang , Robert S Laramee

Framing -- how designers define and reinterpret problems, shape narratives, and guide audience understanding -- is central to design practice. Yet in visualization research, framing has been examined mostly through its rhetorical and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Prakash Shukla , Paul Parsons

With changing attitudes around knowledge, medicine, art, and technology, the human body has become a source of information and, ultimately, shareable and analyzable data. Centuries of illustrations and visualizations of the body occur…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Michael Correll , Laura A. Garrison

Time series is a collection of data instances that are ordered according to a time stamp. Stock prices, temperature, etc are examples of time series data in real life. Time series data are used for forecasting sales, predicting trends.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Sathya Krishnan Suresh , Shunmugapriya P

We, as a society, need artists to help us interpret and explain science, but what does an artist's studio look like when today's science is built upon the language of large, increasingly complex data? This paper presents a data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Bridger Herman , Francesca Samsel , Annie Bares , Seth Johnson , Greg Abram , Daniel F. Keefe

We conducted a study to systematically investigate the communication of complex dynamic processes along a two-dimensional design space, where the axes represent a representation's manifestation (physical or virtual) and operation (manual or…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Daniel Pahr , Henry Ehlers , Hsiang-Yun Wu , Manuela Waldner , Renata G. Raidou

Data physicalizations have gained prominence across domains, but their environmental impact has been largely overlooked. This work addresses this gap by investigating the interplay between sustainability and physicalization practices. We…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Luiz Morais , Georgia Panagiotidou , Sarah Hayes , Tatiana Losev , Rebecca Noonan , Uta Hinrichs

The exponential growth of data has outpaced human ability to process information, necessitating innovative approaches for effective human-data interaction. To transform raw data into meaningful insights, storytelling, and visualization have…

Developable surfaces are commonly observed in various applications such as architecture, product design, manufacturing, mechanical materials, and data physicalization as well as in the development of tangible interaction and deformable…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Chao Yuan , Nan Cao , Yang Shi

The aim of visualization is to support people in dealing with large and complex information structures, to make these structures more comprehensible, facilitate exploration, and enable knowledge discovery. However, users often have problems…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Christina Stoiber , Markus Wagner , Florian Grassinger , Margit Pohl , Holger Stitz , Marc Streit , Benjamin Potzmann , Wolfgang Aigner

The current information age has increasingly required organizations to become data-driven. However, analyzing and managing raw data is still a challenging part of the data mining process. Even though we can find interview studies proposing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Alessandra Milani , Fernando Paulovich , Isabel Manssour

A long-standing vision in computer science has been to evolve computing devices into proactive assistants that enhance our productivity, health and wellness, and many other facets of our lives. User digitization is crucial in achieving this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Karan Ahuja

The opacity of machine learning data is a significant threat to ethical data work and intelligible systems. Previous research has addressed this issue by proposing standardized checklists to document datasets. This paper expands that field…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Milagros Miceli , Tianling Yang , Adriana Alvarado Garcia , Julian Posada , Sonja Mei Wang , Marc Pohl , Alex Hanna

We revisit the design space of visualizations aiming at identifying and relating its components. In this sense, we establish a model to examine the process through which visualizations become expressive for users. This model has leaded us…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Jose F. Rodrigues , Agma J. M. Traina , Maria C. F. Oliveira , Caetano Traina

Complex data visualization design projects often entail collaboration between people with different visualization-related skills. For example, many teams include both designers who create new visualization designs and developers who…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Jagoda Walny , Christian Frisson , Mieka West , Doris Kosminsky , Søren Knudsen , Sheelagh Carpendale , Wesley Willett