Data storytelling has been widely used during the COVID-19 pandemic to disseminate information—from visualizations to increase public awareness, to communicating public health decision making, to driving action. However, many children lack the information and data literacy to understand the more sophisticated visualizations used to communicate data. Touching Trends aims to help children reason about the pandemic through the creative process of making while enhancing their data literacy.

Funding Support: This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS 2040489. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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Publication:

Sandra Bae, Ruhan Yang, Peter Gyory, Julia Uhr, Danielle Albers Szafir. Touching Information with DIY Paper Charts & AR Markers, (2021) in IDC '21: Interaction Design and Children, June 2021 Pages 433–438, 24 June 2021, https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3459990.3465191

Associated Researchers

Sandra Bae headshot
Sandra Bae
PhD Student • INFORMATION VISUALIZATION, INFORMATION PHYSICALIZATION, INTERPLAY BETWEEN HUMAN, MACHINE & DATA
ATLAS Institute
Ellen Yi-Luen Do
Ellen Yi-Luen Do
Professor • Director, ATLAS Partnerships & Innovation • ACME Lab • DESIGN, TANGIBLE INTERACTION, HAPPY HEALTHY LIVING • COMPUTER SCIENCE
ATLAS Institute
Peter Gyory,
Peter Gyory
Lecturer • PhD, Creative Technology and Design ‘23 • GAMES, XR, TANGIBLE INTERACTION
ATLAS Institute
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Danielle Szafir
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, UNC Chapel Hill • Former ATLAS faculty member
Julia Uhr
Julia Uhr
PhD, Creative Technology and Design ‘23 • MIXED REALITY, GAME, TECH POLICY, PROGRAMMING LANGUAUGE FOR VR
ATLAS Institute
ruhan yang
Ruhan Yang
PhD Student • MS, CTD—Creative Industries '21 • TOY DESIGN, PAPER CRAFT
ATLAS Institute