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Multimodal Data Physicalization for Climate Change Communication : Exploration of Haptic and Auditory Modalities

Dharmaputra, B.A. (2024) Multimodal Data Physicalization for Climate Change Communication : Exploration of Haptic and Auditory Modalities.

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Abstract:Data physicalization is a technique of representing data in physical interfaces, a new way to interact with data that can be perceived through human senses. This research aims to compare different combinations of temperature, vibration, and sound modalities in data perception and user experience of a data physicalization conveying climate change data using ordinal data. This project uses three indicators to describe the change in global climate, land precipitation, air temperature, and sea temperature. Additionally, the scope of the data spans from 1960 to 2090 from across five regions: the Indonesian Sea, the East Bering Sea, The North Sea, Greenland, and Antarctica, providing a projection of the historical transformation of emission, the current state, and the potential future trajectory of our climate. The user evaluation is conducted to find the efficiency, accuracy, mental load, and subject confidence between the combination of modalities: temperature and sound, vibration and temperature, and each modality separately to compare the perception of data. The study was designed as a between-subject user study to avoid the learning effect with 24 participants. In conclusion, the combination modalities have no significant difference in data perception. However, the use of multimodal combinations enhances the user experience.
Item Type:Essay (Bachelor)
Faculty:EEMCS: Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Subject:50 technical science in general
Programme:Creative Technology BSc (50447)
Link to this item:https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/98309
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