2022/09/12 by Bon Adriel Aseniero, Sheelagh Carpendale, Aseniero, Bon Adriel +5 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Data Visualization and Analytics #FOS: Computer and information sciences #H.5.m #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2209.05376
openalex publication_date 2022/09/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In creating SkyGlyphs, our goal was to develop a data visualization that could possibly capture people's attention and spark their curiosity to explore a dataset. This work was inspired by a mingling of research including serendipitous interactions, visualizations for public displays, and personal visualizations. SkyGlyphs is a nonconventional whimsical visualization, depicting datapoints as animated balloons in space. We designed it to encourage non-experts to casually browse the contents of a repository through visual interactions like linking and grouping of datapoints. Our contributions include SkyGlyphs' representation and our design reflection that reveals a perspective on how to design delightful visualizations.