TY - GEN
T1 - Communicating Consequences
T2 - 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2023
AU - Sultana, Sharifa
AU - Ahmed, Syed Ishtiaque
AU - Rzeszotarski, Jeffrey M.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Mr. Philip Biswas and Salim Reza from the Rural Reconstruction Foundation (RRF). This research was made possible by generous grants from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (#RGPIN-2018-0), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (#892191082), Canada Foundation for Innovation (#37608), Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation (#37608), and Face-book Fellowship of Sharifa Sultana.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2023/4/19
Y1 - 2023/4/19
N2 - Information communication and visualization practices reflect two centuries of developments of conventions and best practices which may not be reflective of global audiences' methods for conveying information. Contrasting between rural traditional visual culture and contemporary HCI and data-visualization, we argue that an understanding of traditional practices for information visualization is required for building rich data-narratives and making data-driven systems more accessible and culturally situated. Our ten-month ethnographic study investigates how rural Bangladeshi communities construct narratives through visual media. 1 Our observation, interviews, and FGDs (n=54) expose how participants convey risk management, decision-making, and monetary management practices to their peers. We find that villagers used a rich network of polysemic symbols and abstractions to manifest subjectivity, factuality, consequence, situatedness, and uncertainty; varied visual attributes for constructing narratives; and emphasized material relations among components in visuals. These findings inform the design of future systems for decision support in a culturally situated manner.
AB - Information communication and visualization practices reflect two centuries of developments of conventions and best practices which may not be reflective of global audiences' methods for conveying information. Contrasting between rural traditional visual culture and contemporary HCI and data-visualization, we argue that an understanding of traditional practices for information visualization is required for building rich data-narratives and making data-driven systems more accessible and culturally situated. Our ten-month ethnographic study investigates how rural Bangladeshi communities construct narratives through visual media. 1 Our observation, interviews, and FGDs (n=54) expose how participants convey risk management, decision-making, and monetary management practices to their peers. We find that villagers used a rich network of polysemic symbols and abstractions to manifest subjectivity, factuality, consequence, situatedness, and uncertainty; varied visual attributes for constructing narratives; and emphasized material relations among components in visuals. These findings inform the design of future systems for decision support in a culturally situated manner.
KW - Abstraction
KW - Bangladesh
KW - Consequences
KW - Information Visualization
KW - Polysemy
KW - Visual Narratives
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U2 - 10.1145/3544548.3581149
DO - 10.1145/3544548.3581149
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85160020373
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
BT - CHI 2023 - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 23 April 2023 through 28 April 2023
ER -