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👋 Moien Luxembourg, we're happy to be at EuroVis 2025! 📊

@markjan will give a long presentation about »Fluidly revealing information: A survey of un/foldable data visualizations» - Wednesday morning. Check out the survey browser here (⚠️: lots of GIFs): https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/unfoldables/

Theresa Eingartner will give a short talk about »Inflecting data visualizations for web-based scrollytelling« - Thursday afternoon. See it in action here: https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/inflect/

#DataVis #DataViz #EuroVis2025 #EuroVis

UCLAB Potsdam Oct 17, 2024

at this very moment @tobiaskauer is presenting »Discursive Patinas: Anchoring Discussions in Data Visualizations« at #ieeevis – joint work with @gotdairyya, @nrchtct and Benjamin Bach.

preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17994
fast forward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBwtliqYULc

#datavis #dataviz #annotation #discussion #patina

Discursive Patinas: Anchoring Discussions in Data Visualizations

This paper presents discursive patinas, a technique to visualize discussions onto data visualizations, inspired by how people leave traces in the physical world. While data visualizations are widely discussed in online communities and social media, comments tend to be displayed separately from the visualization and we lack ways to relate these discussions back to the content of the visualization, e.g., to situate comments, explain visual patterns, or question assumptions. In our visualization annotation interface, users can designate areas within the visualization. Discursive patinas are made of overlaid visual marks (anchors), attached to textual comments with category labels, likes, and replies. By coloring and styling the anchors, a meta visualization emerges, showing what and where people comment and annotate the visualization. These patinas show regions of heavy discussions, recent commenting activity, and the distribution of questions, suggestions, or personal stories. We ran workshops with 90 students, domain experts, and visualization researchers to study how people use anchors to discuss visualizations and how patinas influence people's understanding of the discussion. Our results show that discursive patinas improve the ability to navigate discussions and guide people to comments that help understand, contextualize, or scrutinize the visualization. We discuss the potential of anchors and patinas to support discursive engagements, including critical readings of visualizations, design feedback, and feminist approaches to data visualization.

arXiv.org

UCLAB Potsdam May 23, 2024

The Amazonia Future Lab https://amazoniafuturelab.fh-potsdam.de will exhibit their interactive video installation on material practices from the indigenous communities of the Upper Xingu at re:publica 24 in Berlin next week!

📆 27–29 May 2024
🔗 https://re-publica.com/de/session/xingu-entangled

#rp24 #AmazoniaFutureLab #DataVis #Storytelling #InterfaceDesign #FHPotsdam

Amazonia Future Lab: Connect – Comprehend – Communicate

Amazonia Future Lab” is a pilot project based on objects from multiple collections, aiming to overcome disciplinary, institutional and spatial boundaries and to create digital and analog spaces of networking, mutual understanding and mediation.

UCLAB Potsdam May 14, 2024

This week at the MAI-Tagung (museums and the internet) taking place at #JMBerlin, we present our ongoing research project »Granularities of dispersion and materiality – Visualizing a photo archive about diaspora«

#GraDiM project: https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/projects/gradim/

#maitagung2024 program: https://mai-tagung.lvr.de/de/programm_1/inhaltsseite_12.html

#GraDiMFHP #datavis #DigitalHumanities #vikusfhp #FHPotsdam #maitagung

GraDiM - UCLAB – FH Potsdam

In his photographic journey spanning more than four decades and more than 40 countries, Frédéric Brenner has investigated the multiple expressions of life in diaspora. His archive is a comprehensive visual record of the Jewish people from the late 20th into the 21st century. It features contemporary debates and challenges of individual and collective identities […]

UCLAB – FH Potsdam

UCLAB Potsdam Mar 26, 2024

We’re showing Xingú Entangled → https://amazoniafuturelab.fh-potsdam.de
at Existência Numérica Emergências → https://existencianumerica.com.br

27 March – 23 June at Futuros - Arte e Tecnologia in Rio de Janeiro

This Wednesday the exhibition opens with presentations and discussions.

#DataVis #Storytelling #InterfaceDesign #FHPotsdam #AmazoniaFutureLab #AmazonasFutureLab #ExistenciaNumerica

Amazonia Future Lab: Connect – Comprehend – Communicate

UCLAB Potsdam Feb 2, 2024

Looking for participants!

We are running a user study to evaluate a prototype interface for discussing data visualizations. If you are interested in our work and want to support our research, join one of the sessions!

#UserStudy #DataVis #DataViz

Visualization Discussion Evaluation

Looking for participants! We’re running a user study to evaluate a prototype interface for discussing data visualizations. If you are interested in our work and want to support our research, select one of the sessions below. Sessions will be conducted online via Zoom. No prior knowledge needed. Unfortunately, we can’t offer monetary compensation.

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UCLAB Potsdam Jan 10, 2024

As part of the @stabihh series Digital Humanities - How does that work?, our Sabine de Günther @SabineDG will give a hands-on workshop (in German) on explorative visualizations of cultural assets:

📆 Monday, 15.01.2024, 10 - 15:30
📍Location: Book tower of the Stabi, 17th floor

There are still a few seats left. All details:
https://blog.sub.uni-hamburg.de/?p=36725

#DigitalHumanities #DataVis #CulturalHeritage #vikusFHP

UCLAB Potsdam Nov 19, 2023

🧳 We are getting ready for @InfoPlusConf in a few days in Edinburgh!

@fidel Thomet and Nadia Zeissig will exhibit Xingú Entangled from the #AmazoniaFutureLab project and @jona Pomerance will talk about the interactive and narrated flowchart about #BetterCatastrophe.

🌿 https://amazoniafuturelab.fh-potsdam.de
🦑 https://flowchart.bettercatastrophe.com

We look forward to meet and mingle with old and new friends!

#infoplus2023 #DataVis #Storytelling #InterfaceDesign #FHPotsdam #AmazonasFutureLab

Amazonia Future Lab: Connect – Comprehend – Communicate

UCLAB Potsdam Oct 25, 2023

During Manja Schuele's visit to #FHPotsdam this morning—she's Brandenburg's minister for science, research, and culture—we showcased some of our recent visualization research on climate communication:
https://taz.de/klimakarten
https://flowchart.bettercatastrophe.com

… as well as digital cultural heritage:
https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/vikus/

She came prepared with on-point questions and offered great suggestions!

#FHPotsdam #DataVis #ClimateCommunication #DigitalCulturalHeritage

taz-Datenprojekt zum Klimaschutz: Heiße Grüße aus Deutschland

Wie steht es um den Klimaschutz in Deutschland? In einem Datenprojekt hat die taz alle Landkreise in den Bereichen Energie, Mobilität, Landwirtschaft, Abfall und Gebäude verglichen – mit ernüchternden Ergebnissen.

UCLAB Potsdam Oct 24, 2023

How can we design visualizations of climate protection & how do they impact readers?

@framoriniii will present »From shock to shift: Data visualization for constructive climate journalism« on 27 Oct at #ieeevis in the Journalism & the Public panel.

https://uclab.fh-potsdam.de/projects/klimakarten/

#Klimakarten is joint work with @aeschi, Johanna Hartmann, @nrchtct and @tazgetroete's @lalonsander, Luise Strothmann, @baeck & Jelena Malkowski.

#vidanfhp #ClimateAction #DataJournalism #DataVis #InterfaceDesign #FHPotsdam

Klimakarten - UCLAB – FH Potsdam

In collaboration with the newspaper taz, we designed and produced both physical and digital postcards containing visualizations covering various aspects of climate protection and mitigation in Germany. For each of the 401 districts and 16 states in Germany, the reader can explore climate protection postcards in the five sectors: energy, mobility, buildings, agriculture, and waste. […]

UCLAB – FH Potsdam