I am interested in the alternative uses of information visualization beyond analytic and scientific purposes. In fact, there have been many approaches regarding the illustrative and communicative aspects of infovis; social visualization, casual infovis, data visualization for narrative, and etc. My focus is a growing cultural phenomena where information visualizations are used as a persuasive [...]
Tag Archives: persuasion
The Persuasive Phase of Visualization
Chih, Christine H., and Douglass S. Parker. “The persuasive phase of visualization.” In Proceeding of the 14th ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining, 884-892. Las Vegas, Nevada, USA: ACM, 2008.
This paper seemed quite relevant to my interest: persuasive infovis. However, the foci are quite different. In this paper, the authors [...]
The Visual Rhetoric of Data Displays: The Conundrum of Clarity
Kostelnick, C. “The Visual Rhetoric of Data Displays: The Conundrum of Clarity.” Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on 50, no. 4 (2007): 280-294.
The author is a professor from an English department, Iowa State University. It is interesting to see how a literature scholar approaches information visualization. In fact, he collaborates with professors and seems to be [...]
Chris Jordan pictures some shocking stats
http://www.ted.com/talks/chris_jordan_pictures_some_shocking_stats.html
http://benfry.com/writing/archives/277
A TED talk in 2008. The speaker is a photographer who works on a macro-scale of everyday objects. For example, he stacks millions of plastic cups, makes an abstract images. Hopefully looking at this beautiful and shocking images would trigger any emotional reaction when viewers face at plastic cups?
Social Sites for Visualization
Short memo on InfoVis and Persuasion.
Socia InfoVis sites such as Swivel and ManyEyes are surely attract laypeople. As I look through through these websites, I came to think that these social website might trigger the discussion of political and social issues by “visualizing” the data.
Of course, there are many data junk, and many of the [...]
"Show-me": water consumption at a glance to promote water conservation in the shower
K. Kappel and T. Grechenig, “”show-me”: water consumption at a glance to promote water conservation in the shower,” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, Claremont, California: ACM, 2009, pp. 1-6.
This is a very interesting project which breaks the screen-based InfoVis. Also it’s a good example at the intersection of Casual InfoVis & [...]
Energy aware dwelling: a critical survey of interaction design for eco-visualizations
J. Pierce, W. Odom, and E. Blevis, “Energy aware dwelling: a critical survey of interaction design for eco-visualizations,” Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Designing for Habitus and Habitat, Cairns, Australia: ACM, 2008, pp. 1-8.
This survey paper includes the definition of eco-visualization, characteristics, design strategies & categories. It is a decent summary [...]
Eco-visualization: combining art and technology to reduce energy consumption
T.G. Holmes, “Eco-visualization: combining art and technology to reduce energy consumption,” Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference on Creativity \& cognition, Washington, DC, USA: ACM, 2007, pp. 153-162.
Persuasion has been a one big issue in HCI community. Especially, sustainable design is the most highlighted so far. It deals with how technology and design motivate [...]