Event Description
Drexel's College of Computing & Informatics welcomes Dr. Jaime Snyder, MFA,
PhD, Associate Professor in the Information School at the University of
Washington. Dr. Snyder’s talk will use a series of projects from her
Visualization Studies Research Studio (VSRS) to focus on three aspects of Grounded
Visualization Design (GVD) inquiry: (1) a speculative co-design methodology for
creating non-normative visual encoding systems, (2) an emergent theory of
dialectic vision to understand and describe non-professional expertise and
vernacular ways of observing and knowing the world, and (3) the potential for
grounded visual elicitation to address epistemic burdens in participatory
design practices.
The creation of visualizations of personal experiences, from the display of data in
fitness apps to community health data dashboards, rarely involves input from
the people whose experiences are being represented. GVD is a sociotechnical design research framework for creating speculative visualizations and visual
encoding systems in collaboration with those stakeholders. By involving the people who are the source of data in the visualization design process, GVD explores the ways that choices made in the creation of visual representations of data, information, knowledge, and lived experiences can reflect sensemaking
practices, values, and priorities. The design artifacts produced through GVD
often challenge normative conventions for visualizing data, especially those
data that represent personhood, personal experiences, and vernacular ways of
knowing. |
