A Change of Perspective: How User Orientation Influences the Perception of Physicalizations

Kim Sauvé; Dominic Potts; Jason Alexander; Steven Houben

doi:10.1145/3313831.3376312

A Change of Perspective: How User Orientation Influences the Perception of Physicalizations

Kim Sauvé, Dominic Potts, Jason Alexander, Steven Houben

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Abstract

As physicalizations encode data in their physical 3D form, the orientation in which the user is viewing the physicalization may impact the way the information is perceived. However, this relation between user orientation and perception of physical properties is not well understood or studied. To investigate this relation, we conducted an experimental study with 20 participants who viewed 6 exemplars of physicalizations from 4 different perspectives. Our findings show that perception is directly influenced by user orientation as it affects (i) the number and type of clusters, (ii) anomalies and (iii) extreme values identified within a physicalization. Our results highlight the complexity and variability of the relation between user orientation and perception of physicalizations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1-12
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450367080
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376312
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2020

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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© ACM, 2020. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3313831.3376312; CHI 2020 ; Conference date: 25-04-2020 Through 30-04-2020

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Keywords

data physicalization
physical visualization
user orientation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Human-Computer Interaction
Software

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Sauvé, K., Potts, D., Alexander, J., & Houben, S. (2020). A Change of Perspective: How User Orientation Influences the Perception of Physicalizations. In CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-12). Article 3376312 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376312

A Change of Perspective: How User Orientation Influences the Perception of Physicalizations. / Sauvé, Kim; Potts, Dominic; Alexander, Jason et al.
CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. p. 1-12 3376312 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Sauvé, K, Potts, D, Alexander, J & Houben, S 2020, A Change of Perspective: How User Orientation Influences the Perception of Physicalizations. in CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 3376312, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376312

Sauvé K, Potts D, Alexander J, Houben S. A Change of Perspective: How User Orientation Influences the Perception of Physicalizations. In CHI 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery. 2020. p. 1-12. 3376312. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/3313831.3376312

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