3 papers
cs.HC2025
Data Melodification FM: Where Musical Rhetoric Meets Sonification
Ke Er Amy Zhang, David Grellscheid, Laura Garrison
We propose a design space for data melodification, where standard visualization idioms and fundamental data characteristics map to rhetorical devices of music for a more affective…
cs.HC2025
Data Humanism Decoded: A Characterization of its Principles to Bridge Data Visualization Researchers and Practitioners
Ibrahim Al-Hazwani, Ke Er Zhang, Laura Garrison +1
Data Humanism is a human-centered design approach that emphasizes the personal, contextual, and imperfect nature of data. Despite its growing influence among practitioners, the 13…
cs.HC2025
Deconstructing Implicit Beliefs in Visual Data Journalism: Unstable Meanings Behind Data as Truth & Design for Insight
Ke Er Amy Zhang, Jodie Jenkinson, Laura Garrison
We conduct a deconstructive reading of a qualitative interview study with 17 visual data journalists from newsrooms across the globe. We borrow a deconstruction approach from liter…