Samaa Ahmed, Sara Diamond, Lan-Xi Dong, Ana Jofre, Stephen Tiefenbach Keller, Steve Szegeti: DataBlocks: A Tangible Interface for Data Visualization
Title:
DataBlocks: A Tangible Interface for Data Visualization
Artist(s) and People Involved:
Exhibiting Artist(s):
- Samaa Ahmed
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Sara Louise Diamond
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- Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U)
- Lan-Xi Dong
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Ana Jofre
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- State University of New York (SUNY)
- Stephen Tiefenbach Keller
- Steve Szegeti
Symposium:
Artist Statement:
We present a prototype for a Tangible User Interface designed for interactive data visualization, which we believe will be useful for facilitating collaborative work in data analytics. Our hybrid system combines a tabletop graspable user interface with a two-dimensional screen display; the users interrogate the data by manipulating tokens on the tabletop and the screen displays the results of the user’s query. We demonstrate our system with demographic data from the UN, but we have designed our system such that the user can enter their own data to visualize.
