Undoing Seamlessness: Exploring Seams for Critical Visualization
Nicole Hengesbach
Abstract:While seamful design has been part of discourses and work within HCI contexts for some time, it has not yet been fully explored in data visualization design. At the same time, critics of visualization have been arguing that the representation of data as contextual, contingent, relational, partial, heterogeneous, and situated is currently lacking in visualization. Seamful visualization promises a fresh perspective on visualization design as we seek to find more expressive encodings and novel approaches to repre… Show more
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