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Physecology: A Conceptual Framework to Describe Data Physicalizations in their Real-World Context

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Miriam Sturdee,

Steven HoubenAuthors Info & Claims

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Volume 29, Issue 3

Article No.: 27, Pages 1 - 33

https://doi.org/10.1145/3505590

Published: 14 January 2022 Publication History

Abstract

The standard definition for “physicalizations” is “a physical artifact whose geometry or material properties encode data” [47]. While this working definition provides the fundamental groundwork for conceptualizing physicalization, in practice many physicalization systems go beyond the scope of this definition as they consist of distributed physical and digital elements that involve complex interaction mechanisms. In this article, we examine how “physicalization” is part of a broader ecology—the “physecology”—with properties that go beyond the scope of the working definition. Through analyzing 60 representative physicalization papers, we derived six design dimensions of a physecology: (i) represented data type, (ii) way of information communication, (iii) interaction mechanisms, (iv) spatial input–output coupling, (v) physical setup, and (vi) audiences involved. Our contribution is the extension of the definition of physicalization to the broader concept of “physecology,” to provide conceptual clarity on the design of physicalizations for future work.

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Physecology: A Conceptual Framework to Describe Data Physicalizations in their Real-World Context
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ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction Volume 29, Issue 3

June 2022

359 pages

ISSN:1073-0516

EISSN:1557-7325

DOI:10.1145/3505203

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KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

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Published: 14 January 2022

Accepted: 01 September 2021

Revised: 01 August 2021

Received: 01 May 2021

Published in TOCHI Volume 29, Issue 3

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