Discursive Patinas

  • This paper presents discursive patinas, a technique to visualize discussions onto data visualizations, inspired by how people leave traces in the physical world. While data visualizations are widely discussed in online communities and social media, comments tend to be displayed separately from the visualization and we lack ways to relate these discussions back to the content of the visualization, e.g., to situate comments, explain visual patterns, or question assumptions. In our visualization annotation interface, users can designate areas within the visualization. Discursive patinas are made of overlaid visual marks (anchors), attached to textual comments with category labels, likes, and replies. By coloring and styling the anchors, a meta visualization emerges, showing what and where people comment and annotate the visualization. These patinas show regions of heavy discussions, recent commenting activity, and the distribution of questions, suggestions, or personal stories. We ran workshops with 90 students, domain experts, andThis paper presents discursive patinas, a technique to visualize discussions onto data visualizations, inspired by how people leave traces in the physical world. While data visualizations are widely discussed in online communities and social media, comments tend to be displayed separately from the visualization and we lack ways to relate these discussions back to the content of the visualization, e.g., to situate comments, explain visual patterns, or question assumptions. In our visualization annotation interface, users can designate areas within the visualization. Discursive patinas are made of overlaid visual marks (anchors), attached to textual comments with category labels, likes, and replies. By coloring and styling the anchors, a meta visualization emerges, showing what and where people comment and annotate the visualization. These patinas show regions of heavy discussions, recent commenting activity, and the distribution of questions, suggestions, or personal stories. We ran workshops with 90 students, domain experts, and visualization researchers to study how people use anchors to discuss visualizations and how patinas influence people's understanding of the discussion. Our results show that discursive patinas improve the ability to navigate discussions and guide people to comments that help understand, contextualize, or scrutinize the visualization. We discuss the potential of anchors and patinas to support discursive engagements, including critical readings of visualizations, design feedback, and feminist approaches to data visualization.zeige mehrzeige weniger

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Verfasserangaben:Tobias KauerORCiD, Derya Akbaba, Marian DörkORCiD, Benjamin Bach
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2024.3456334
ISSN:1077-2626
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch):IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics
Untertitel (Englisch):Anchoring Discussions in Data Visualizations
Verlag:Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Verlagsort:New York
Dokumentart:Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Sprache:Englisch
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung:2024
Veröffentlichende Institution:Fachhochschule Potsdam
Datum der Freischaltung:20.09.2024
GND-Schlagwort:Annotation; Daten; Diskussion; Visualisierung
Jahrgang:21
Ausgabe / Heft:1
Erste Seite:1246
Letzte Seite:1256
Fachbereiche und Zentrale Einrichtungen:FB4 Design
Forschungs- und An-Institute / Inst. für angewandte Forschung Urbane Zukunft (IaF)
DDC-Klassifikation:000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke / 000 Informatik, Wissen, Systeme
Lizenz (Deutsch):Keine öffentliche Lizenz - es gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht
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