@inproceedings{eb1aacf02cc04a0e96f33d25bd95215a,
title = "Leveraging Aesthetic Expression in Visualization to Communicate Positive Facts during COVID-19 Pandemic",
abstract = "The COVID-19 pandemic is a global public health crisis. Alongside the rapid geographical development and constantly rising number of confirmed cases, mixed spread of information and disinformation also plagued the public with distress, fear, and anxiety, transmitting a negative sentiment across many groups. Facing this, we experiment with the aesthetics of visualizations in educating laymen about positive facts during the pandemic. By blending artistic expressions into the visual encoding, we intend to tell a compelling data story describing the international scientific dedication in fighting the disease collaboratively. We present the visualization to collect feedback and evaluate the expected functions from general audience instead of traditional expert user groups.",
keywords = "3D visualization, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, aesthetics, artistic visualization, geo-spatial, information visualization, positive design",
author = "Wei Li and Mathias Funk and Aarnout Brombacher",
year = "2020",
month = dec,
day = "8",
doi = "10.1145/3430036.3430063",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781450387507",
series = "ACM International Conference Proceeding Series",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
editor = "Nguyen, {Quang Vinh} and Ying Zhao and Michael Burch and Michel Westenberg",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and Interaction, VINCI 2020",
address = "United States",
}