The Role of Tangible Interaction in Exploring Information on Public Visualization Displays
Sandy Claes, Andrew Vande Moere · 2015
A rising number of public displays are becoming equipped with tangible interfaces. Especially in the context of the visualization of data in the public realm, offering tangible interaction modalities might actively attract and engage passer-bys, and lead to increased information discovery.. We therefore present a novel public visualization installation that deploys different forms of tangible interaction in combination with a public display in order to communicate civic data to a lay audience. During a comparative, deployment-based study in an urban context, we compared three distinct tangible interaction modalities in terms of the types of engagement and insight generation they facilitated. We report on our findings and discuss a number of design recommendations for tangible interaction on public information displays.