Caroline Wong will be presenting a poster at IUW, 2018 at the University of Toronto. Wong is a Master's student of Management Sciences studying the benefits of touch-enabled systems that improve our interaction with large datasets.
Wong argues that making data visualization tools touch-enabled can make personal data more meaningful and accessible to non-experts rather than technologies that only allow for point-and-click.
The underlying assumption is that touch/mobile provides easier access; however, the benefits of multi-touch interaction to gaining insight about data are not well understood.
-Caroline Wong
Wong's poster at IUW investigates how multi-touch interaction with data improves immersion, engagement, and competency in data interpretation: To evaluate interaction experiences, Wong uses data visualization tools to conduct a series of tests that measure people's engagement with data.
This preliminary research is a part of Wong's ongoing research in her Master's program:
The progress of this research [so far] has been a literature review along with a touch and mouse version of a visualization tool that is ready to test. The findings from this research will be used to iteratively make appropriate design recommendations, implement, and evaluate future touch visualizations.
-Caroline Wong