3 papers
cs.HC2026
A Critical Reflection on the Values and Assumptions in Data Visualization
Shehryar Saharan, Ibrahim Al-Hazwani, Miriah Meyer +1
Visualization has matured into an established research field, producing widely adopted tools, design frameworks, and empirical foundations. As the field has grown, ideas from outsi…
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
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…