Data Embroidery: Exploring Alternative Mediums for Personal Physicalization
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2019-05
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Our work explores the use of embroidery as a medium for personal data representation. Personal physicalization is at the intersection of personal visualization and physicalization. More precisely, personal physicalization uses tangible objects to represent data in a personal context. This unique design space inspired us to explore alternative mediums to integrate data with personal artifacts, as well as facilitate the exploration of a multi-sensory data encoding. We first developed a workflow for authoring embroidered physicalizations. Then, we used this process to create an embroidered blanket based on text message data.
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Visualization techniques, Visualization systems and tools
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Wannamaker, K., Oehlberg, L. A., Carpendale, S., & Willett, W. J. (2019). Data Embroidery: Exploring Alternative Mediums for Personal Physicalization (conference poster)