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The seminar took place on Wednesday. In preparation for the seminar, a number of questions were given that were discussed during the seminar. This was a nice form of preparation. I had read the articles but I could not answer all the questions right away. For example, there were concepts that I understood in the context of the article, but could not immediately explain.
For example, the difference between a bit and a Tangible Bit was asked. And through this question I elaborated on these topics, making them even clearer to myself. And because of this all these topics became clearer, I was able to form a clearer opinion about the articles.
For example, the first article (Jansen et al., 2015) talks about depth perception. This means that a data physicalization is more accurate than a data visualization. Since physical objects give rich cues of shape and volume. I believe that this is not true, since there are no exact numbers in a data physicalization. While a data visualization often communicates this. So I would say it’s not more accurate then a “normal” digital visualisation. This also came up during the seminar. And there were more people who shared this opinion.
There was another interesting discussion about this article. There are a number of paragraphs that deal with the importance of implementing multiple senses in a data pyhisicalization. But the examples mentioned in the article are mainly focused on vision. It could have been a good idea to give an example that vision did not communicate through vision at all.
The last point of discussion that I found interesting related to the second article, Visualization Criticism. The author tries to find a combination of art and technology in relation to data physicalization. The discussion was about whether this combination is possible. Because data is always practical and fixed, and art is autonomous and focused on an artist’s interpretation.
All in all I thought this was a good seminar. We had enough time to go through all the articles and start a discussion.
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