TY - GEN
T1 - Reconfiguration Strategies with Composite Data Physicalizations
AU - Sauvé, Kim
AU - Verweij, David
AU - Alexander, Jason
AU - Houben, Steven
PY - 2021/5/6
Y1 - 2021/5/6
N2 - Composite data physicalizations allow for the physical reconfiguration of data points, creating new opportunities for interaction and engagement. However, there is a lack of understanding of people's strategies and behaviors when directly manipulating physical data objects. In this paper, we systematically characterize different reconfiguration strategies using six exemplar physicalizations. We asked 20 participants to reorganize these exemplars with two levels of restriction: changing a single data object versus changing multiple data objects. Our findings show that there were two main reconfiguration strategies used: changes in proximity and changes in atomic orientation. We further characterize these using concrete examples of participant actions in relation to the structure of the physicalizations. We contribute an overview of reconfiguration strategies, which informs the design of future manually reconfigurable and dynamic composite physicalizations.
AB - Composite data physicalizations allow for the physical reconfiguration of data points, creating new opportunities for interaction and engagement. However, there is a lack of understanding of people's strategies and behaviors when directly manipulating physical data objects. In this paper, we systematically characterize different reconfiguration strategies using six exemplar physicalizations. We asked 20 participants to reorganize these exemplars with two levels of restriction: changing a single data object versus changing multiple data objects. Our findings show that there were two main reconfiguration strategies used: changes in proximity and changes in atomic orientation. We further characterize these using concrete examples of participant actions in relation to the structure of the physicalizations. We contribute an overview of reconfiguration strategies, which informs the design of future manually reconfigurable and dynamic composite physicalizations.
KW - Composite data physicalization
KW - Data physicalization
KW - Physical visualization
KW - Reconfguration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85106688867&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3411764.3445746
DO - 10.1145/3411764.3445746
M3 - Conference contribution
BT - CHI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - ACM/IEEE
ER -