• 2. Februar 2026

  • 14:00 Uhr

  • APB/1004

  • Englisch

Zusammenfassung

Representing data in other than just visual form appears to foster higher affective engagement, which motivates research on Data Physicalisation and Sensification. My team has explored this both via creative designerly approaches and user studies, in teaching and research, aiming to understand this novel design space and its implications for data meaning-making. In my talk, I will discuss how our work, experiences made, and inspirations from the works of others informed development of a design vocabulary for Physicalisation. In trying to systematize the design space of Physicalisation, we realized that finding physical analogues to InfoViz's visual variables is not enough. This is partially due to Physicalisation’s embodied and situated nature. There are also new opportunities, when sensifications only reveal the data indirect interaction via kinesthetic perception. My talk aims to give insight into our thinking and to illustrate some of these central points.

Vita

Dresden Talk Eva Hornecker Eva Hornecker is a Professor in Human-Computer Interaction at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany. Her work is located at the intersection between technology, design, and the social sciences. Before coming to Weimar in 2013, she taught and researched at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland and the Austrian TU Vienna and has been a PostDoc at the Open University, UK, the University of Sussex, UK, and at HitLabNZ in New Zealand, following her PhD at the University of Bremen, Germany. She co-founded the ACM TEI conference and introduced a framework on tangible and embodied interaction that is widely received. Nowadays, her research goes beyond tangible interfaces, but continues to focus on anything that is not classical desktop computing, but embodied, material, or embedded in physical environments - which includes data physicalisation. Her group utilizes mainly qualitative methods of enquiry and Research Through Design approaches. She is a Distinguished Member of the ACM for her contributions to the TEI community and currently serves on the ACM SigCHI Lifetime Awards committee.