Sketching Assignment

The purpose of the sketching (10+10) assignment is to come up with a visualization or visual analytics tool to help people get a comprehensive answer to the questions posed by your data provider. We started the exercise in class, but you need to scan and send to us both the parts conducted in class and the ones done as homework.

(Finished in class) Part 0: Research question

  • determined one or more research questions that you want answered

(Finished in class) Part 1: Brainstorming session (first 10)

  • sketch 10 ideas etc, each on single sheet of paper
  • create an affinity diagram with the sketches (what is an affinity diagram you ask?)
  • organize them into groups of sketches that are related in either technique or data shown.

Part 2: Selecting and polish the most promising ideas

  • from the affinity diagram (grouping of original ideas), select the two or three most promising sketches. The sketches do not have to be from different students.
  • discuss these sketches
  • re-sketch them on a piece of paper neatly, one per student (even if it was not your original sketch)
  • add annotations, provide descriptions where necessary, for example of the research questions or the tasks to be accomplished with the ideas you sketched. Add date and name of re-sketching student. Make sure the sketch is understandable for someone else looking at it.

Part 3: Iterating on the most promising ideas (second 10)

  • using the 3 promising design ideas, generate an additional 10 sketches that are variations of these 2-3 design ideas (for each of you it might be best to stick to one of the design ideas).

Part 4: Polishing the most promising ideas (second 10)

  • chose together the 2 most promising variations for each one of the original designs from Part 3.
  • re-sketch them on a piece of paper neatly, divide the load (even if it was not your original sketch)
  • add annotations, provide descriptions where necessary, for example of the research questions or the tasks to be accomplished with the ideas you sketched. Add date and name of re-sketching student. Make sure the sketch is understandable for someone else looking at it.

Deliverable:

  • the cleanly re-sketched ideas (from part 2 and part 4) are your deliverable.
  • digitize your sketches (you can photograph them, if you don’t have a scanner at hand) and submit it as a single multipage pdf file. (e.g., you can use PowerPoint or Word to assemble them in different slides and save these slides as a pdf.)

Your Deliverable

  • WHAT - The deliverable as outlined above
  • WHERE - You should email the file to petra.isenberg@inria.fr and Anastasia.Bezerianos@lri.fr with the subject InfoVis-Assignment 3. Also bring the original sketches to class.
  • WHEN - Before class on Dec 20th.