Communicating with Motion: A Design Space for Animated Visual Narratives in Data Videos

Abstract

Data videos are a genre of narrative visualization that communicates stories by combining data visualization and motion graphics. While data videos are increasingly gaining popularity, few systematic reviews or structured analyses exist for their design. In this work, we introduce a design space for animated visual narratives in data videos. The design space combines a dimension for animation techniques that are frequently used to facilitate data communication with one for visual narrative strategies served by such animation techniques to support story presentation. We derived our design space from the analysis of 82 high-quality data videos collected from online sources. We conducted a workshop with 20 participants to evaluate the effectiveness of our design space. Qualitative and quantitative feedback suggested that our design space is inspirational and useful for designing and creating data videos.

Authors
Yang Shi
Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Xingyu Lan
Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Jingwen Li
Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Zhaorui Li
Intelligent Big Data Visualization Lab, Tongji University, China, Shanghai, China
Nan Cao
Tongji College of Design and Innovation, Shanghai, China
DOI

10.1145/3411764.3445337

Paper URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445337

Video

Conference: CHI 2021

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2021.acm.org/)

Session: Understanding Visualizations

[A] Paper Room 09, 2021-05-12 17:00:00~2021-05-12 19:00:00 / [B] Paper Room 09, 2021-05-13 01:00:00~2021-05-13 03:00:00 / [C] Paper Room 09, 2021-05-13 09:00:00~2021-05-13 11:00:00
Paper Room 09
14 items in this session
2021-05-12 08:00:00
2021-05-12 10:00:00
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