Telling Stories About Dynamic Networks with Graph Comics

Benjamin Bach; Natalie Kerracher; Kyle Wm. Hall; Sheelagh Carpendale; Jessie Kennedy; Nathalie Henry Riche

doi:10.1145/2858036.2858387

Telling Stories About Dynamic Networks with Graph Comics

Benjamin Bach, Natalie Kerracher, Kyle Wm. Hall, Sheelagh Carpendale, Jessie Kennedy, Nathalie Henry Riche

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Abstract

In this paper, we explore graph comics as a medium to communicate changes in dynamic networks. While previous re- search has focused on visualizing dynamic networks for data exploration, we want to see if we can take advantage of the visual expressiveness and familiarity of comics to present and explain temporal changes in networks to an audience. To understand the potential of comics as a storytelling medium, we first created a variety of comics during a 3 month structured design process, involving domain experts from public education and neuroscience. This process led to the definition of 8 design factors for creating graph comics and propose design solutions for each. Results from a qualitative study suggest that a general audience is quickly able understand complex temporal changes through graph comics, provided with minimal textual annotations and no training.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York, NY, USA
Publisher	ACM
Pages	3670-3682
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-3362-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858387
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - San Jose, United States Duration: 7 May 2016 → 12 May 2016 https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/

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Name	CHI '16
Publisher	ACM

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Conference	2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	CHI 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Jose
Period	7/05/16 → 12/05/16
Internet address	https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/

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Benjamin Bach
- Institute of Language, Cognition and Computation
- Design Informatics
- Language, Interaction, and Robotics
- School of Informatics - Reader in Data Visualization and Design Informatics
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Bach, B, Kerracher, N, Hall, KW, Carpendale, S, Kennedy, J & Henry Riche, N 2016, Telling Stories About Dynamic Networks with Graph Comics. in Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '16, ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 3670-3682, 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, San Jose, California, United States, 7/05/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858387

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