Communication and exchange between information visualization and industrial design

Communication Design Quarterly Jun 2015

Communication and exchange between information visualization and industrial design

Zhenyu Cheryl Qian ; Yingjie Victor Chen

Abstract

Our daily activities now heavily rely on data, and sometimes are even controlled by them. Integrating InfoVis into people's daily lives can help them to access, explore, understand, and utilize the vast variance of data. This paper aims to explore and discuss the idea exchange between the traditional domain of industrial design and the novel field of InfoVis. There are three potential approaches. Extending InfoVis into a product design can fill up the small screen on the product and make the product more user friendly. Appling the 3D form of industrial design to InfoVis can bring it to the physical world and enhance the information qualify in our lives. We also argue that there could be a harmonious combination of industrial design and InfoVis that integrate the benefits from both. To understand this hybrid domain, we introduce some preliminary research explorations that covers both the industrial design and InfoVis, along with our education practices, including our assessment framework, research outcomes, education approaches, and student design projects.

Journal: Communication Design Quarterly
Published: 2015-06-16
DOI: 10.1145/2792989.2792995
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Topics: multimodality

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