Dear Pictograph: Investigating the Role of Personalization and Immersion for Consuming and Enjoying Visualizations

Hugo Romat (1) , Nathalie Henry Riche (2) , Christophe Hurter (3) , Steven M. Drucker (4) , Fereshteh Amini (5) , Ken Hinckley (2)

1 ILDA - Interacting with Large Data
2 Microsoft Research [Redmond]
3 ENAC - Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile
4 Microsoft Research
5 University of Manitoba [Winnipeg]

Much of the visualization literature focuses on assessment of visual representations with regard to their effectiveness for understanding data. In the present work, we instead focus on making data visualization experiences more enjoyable, to foster deeper engagement with data. We investigate two strategies to make visualization experiences more enjoyable and engaging: personalization, and immersion. We selected pictographs (composed of multiple data glyphs) as this representation affords creative freedom, allowing people to craft symbolic or whimsical shapes of personal significance to represent data. We present the results of a qualitative study with 12 participants crafting pictographs using a large pen-enabled device and while immersed within a VR environment. Our results indicate that personalization and immersion both have positive impact on making visualizations more enjoyable experiences.

Mots clés: Personalization; Immersion; Visualization

Domaines: Informatique [cs]; Informatique [cs]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Hugo Romat, Nathalie Henry Riche, Christophe Hurter, Steven M. Drucker, Fereshteh Amini, et al.. Dear Pictograph: Investigating the Role of Personalization and Immersion for Consuming and Enjoying Visualizations. CHI '20 - 38th SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems, Apr 2020, Honolulu, United States. pp.221:1-221:13, ⟨10.1145/3313831.3376348⟩. ⟨hal-02888683v2⟩