Jansen, Yvonne and Dragicevic, Pierre and Isenberg, Petra and Alexander, Jason and Karnik, Abhijit and Kildal, Johan and Subramanian, Sriram and Hornbaek, Kasper (2015) Opportunities and challenges for data physicalization. In: CHI '15 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems :. ACM, New York, pp. 3227-3236. ISBN 9781450331456
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Abstract
Physical representations of data have existed for thousands of years. Yet it is now that advances in digital fabrication, actuated tangible interfaces, and shape-changing displays are spurring an emerging area of research that we call Data Physicalization. It aims to help people explore, understand, and communicate data using computer-supported physical data representations. We call these representations physicalizations, analogously to visualizations -- their purely visual counterpart. In this article, we go beyond the focused research questions addressed so far by delineating the research area, synthesizing its open challenges and laying out a research agenda.