Designing Engaging Data in Communities

CHI EA '15, Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems |

Published by ACM - Association for Computing Machinery

Publication

Tim Regan, David Sweeney, John Helmes, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Siân Lindley, Alex S. Taylor (opens in new tab) (2015) Designing Engaging Data in Communities (opens in new tab), CHI EA ’15, p. 271-274, New York, NY, USA: ACM

We present two sets of ‘data technologies’ that we have designed to collect and display local data, both derived from our engagement with a community. The first, Bullfrog, is a bespoke voting device. The second, a series of physical charts, respond to the increasing sophistication of data visualisations by making playful use of pie charts and bar graphs, reimagining them in mechanical forms that are compelling but easily readable.