Showing Data About People: A Design Space of Anthropographics

When showing data about people, visualization designers and data journalists often use design strategies that presumably help the audience relate to those people. The term anthropographics has been recently coined to refer to this practice and the resulting visualizations. Anthropographics is a rich...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 1661 - 1679
Main Authors: Morais, Luiz, Jansen, Yvonne, Andrade, Nazareno, Dragicevic, Pierre
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States IEEE 01.03.2022
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Subjects:
Anthropographics
Communication
compassion
Computer Science
Data visualization
Design
design space
empathy
Empirical analysis
Human-Computer Interaction
Indexes
prosocial behavior
Psychology
Urban areas
Visualization
Websites
empathy
prosocial behavior
compassion
design space
Anthropographics
ISSN:1077-2626, 1941-0506, 1941-0506
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Summary:When showing data about people, visualization designers and data journalists often use design strategies that presumably help the audience relate to those people. The term anthropographics has been recently coined to refer to this practice and the resulting visualizations. Anthropographics is a rich and growing area, but the work so far has remained scattered. Despite preliminary empirical work and a few web essays written by practitioners, there is a lack of clear language for thinking about and communicating about anthropographics. We address this gap by introducing a conceptual framework and a design space for anthropographics. Our design space consists of seven elementary design dimensions that can be reasonably hypothesized to have some effect on prosocial feelings or behavior. It extends a previous design space and is informed by an analysis of 105 visualizations collected from newspapers, websites, and research articles. We use our conceptual framework and design space to discuss trade-offs, common design strategies, as well as future opportunities for design and research in the area of anthropographics.
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ISSN:1077-2626
1941-0506
1941-0506
DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2020.3023013