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Tailoring hydro-infographics in the Peruvian Andes through user-centred (co-)design ICCS5 - What can we learn from all the co-activities? Sam Grainger PhD researcher [email protected]
Dr Wouter Buytaert Senior lecturer in water resources and environmental change [email protected]
paramo.cc.ic.ac.uk/espa/
Visualisation review
Effective visual? “understandable, engaging and meaningful… to contextualise information.”
How? “developing tailored visuals that explicitly consider user characteristics, needs and context-of-use (user-centred) within a highly iterative and participatory (co-)design process.”
User-centred infographic co-design in Lima, Peru
Selected fixed topic…
PREPARATION PHASE
The science behind “Amunas” canal systems
1. 2. 3.
Identified 3 interested user groups…
Highland farmers
Lima professionals Lima citizens
Generated a range of visual possibilities…
DEVELOPMENT PHASE
Co-defined/developed graphical ideas…
Refined user characteristics and common graphical requirements…
1. Highland farmers
Common characteristics - Limited exposure to scientific concepts and graphical conventions. - Experience-based, tacit knowledge. - Interested in optimising these system for local benefits. - Visual aids for communal meetings.
Common requirements - Display in communal space. - Recognisable/relatable visuals of their community. - Intuitive structural devices (e.g. annotation, repetition) to guide community
members through more abstract elements.
2. Lima professionals
Common characteristics - Range of expertise/backgrounds. - University educated. - Familiar with graphical conventions. - Interested in ‘how it works’ / scalability. Common requirements - Tailored map to convey context and scale. - Present volumetric comparison of benefit. - Focus on clarity of message.
3. Lima citizens
Common characteristics - University educated. - Familiar with graphical conventions/journalistic infographics.
Common requirements - Narrative-based. - Data vis and maps should be accessible and visually appealing.
VISUAL ENCODING PHASE
Generate prototypes with infographic designers and users…
Print and user test final products…
TESTING PHASE
We will evaluate relative effectiveness to indicate whether the tailored graphic is more effective than the other two.
Reflections - Diverse user characteristics within user groups. - In Lima, some participants focused on how others might
respond rather than themselves. - In the community, some participants focused on the
information rather than the way it was presented.
Recommendations - Long-term collaborations and relationships. - Clearly communicate aims and their role early in the process. - Use visuals ideas/examples as conversation aids.
Thanks for listening! [email protected] http://paramo.cc.ic.ac.uk/espa/ Grainger, S., Mao, F., Buytaert, W., 2016. Environmental data visualisation for non-scientific contexts: Literature review and design framework. Environ. Model. Softw. 85, 299–318. doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.09.004