Showing papers by "Barbara Tversky published in 2018"

Narrative Design Patterns for Data-Driven Storytelling

Abstract: This chapter introduces the concept of narrative design patterns, that aim to facilitate the shaping of compelling data-driven stories. There are many different ways storytellers can narrate the same story, depending on their intentions and their audience. Here, the authors define and describe a set of these narrative design patterns that can be used on their own or in combination to tell data stories in a myriad of ways. The authors then analyze 18 of them, and illustrate how these patterns can help storytellers think about the stories they want to tell and the best ways to narrate them. Each pattern has a specific purpose, for example, engaging the audience, evoking empathy, or creating flow and rhythm in the story. The authors assume storytellers already know what story they want to tell, why they want to tell it, and who they want to tell it to. These patterns may not only facilitate the process of creating compelling narratives, but stimulate a wider discussion on techniques and practices for data-driven storytelling.

Multiple Models: In the Mind and in the World

Abstract: »Multiple Modelle. Im Geist und in der Welt«. Models, in whatever sense, have a dual status: they are what they are and they represent something else, even Borges’ (1999) legendary point-to-point map. Representations select, add, and distort the information they represent. Models are meant for more than representation; they are meant as thinking tools, to promote inference, discovery, and creative thought. Research has shown that representations created on the page or in the air (gesture) have an accessible semantics and syntax and that such representations promote thought through a wordless conversation between the eye and the hand and the (sometimes virtual) page.

Storytelling in the Wild : Implications for Data Storytelling

Abstract: Storytelling is one kind of discourse, an especially engaging form, but there are others. The explosion of creative contemporary graphics has been exhilarating; they are everywhere. The best of stories can reach a multitude through an individual, from the personal to the collective. The chapter discusses the first tension between storytelling and data. Stories are about individuals and data are about generalities. The breakpoints between event segments are identified by large changes in the physical stream that signal changes in actions, intentions, and goals. From perceiving events to retellings of events, the spontaneous stories of our lives that we tell our friends. People understand and remember a sequence of stills composed of breakpoints better than a sequence of stills that are not breakpoints. Graphs, charts, and diagrams, like facts, often cannot stand on their own. They need to be embedded in some genre of discourse.

Collaborative exploration of urban data in virtual and augmented reality

Abstract: From emergency planning to real estate, many domains can benefit from collaborative exploration of urban environments in VR and AR. We have created an interactive experience that allows multiple users to explore live datasets in context of an immersive scale model of the urban environment with which they are related.