SkyGlyphs: Reflections on the Design of a Delightful Visualization
Abstract
In creating SkyGlyphs, our goal was to develop a data visualization that could possibly capture people's attention and spark their curiosity to explore a dataset. This work was inspired by a mingling of research including serendipitous interactions, visualizations for public displays, and personal visualizations. SkyGlyphs is a nonconventional whimsical visualization, depicting datapoints as animated balloons in space. We designed it to encourage non-experts to casually browse the contents of a repository through visual interactions like linking and grouping of datapoints. Our contributions include SkyGlyphs' representation and our design reflection that reveals a perspective on how to design delightful visualizations.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- September 2022
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2209.05376
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2209.05376
- Bibcode:
- 2022arXiv220905376A
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Human-Computer Interaction;
- H.5.m
- E-Print:
- Accepted to IEEE VIS Arts Program 2022