Learning Objectives for Communicative Data Visualizations

Elsie Lee-Robbins

2019-2024

My dissertation research explores a theme of communicative goals in data visualization design. In particular, I studied the potential for designers to use learning objectives as a framwork to describe their data visualization designs.

Most recently, I wrote an article for Nightingale (Issue 04 - Emotion) about neutrality and affective intents in data visualization.

My collaborator Eytan Adar created this website www.visualobjectives.net as a starting point for designers to create their own learning objectives.

Research Publications

A visual representation of a taxonomy for affective objectives as a grid with verbs as rows and nouns as columns

🏆 Elsie Lee-Robbins & Eytan Adar (2022). Affective Learning Objectives for Communicative Visualizations. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. [pdf] 🏆 Best Paper Award!

Three examples of visualization goals with four visualization designs

Elsie Lee-Robbins, Shiqing (Licia) He, & Eytan Adar (2021). Learning objectives, insights, and assessments: How specification formats impact design. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. [pdf]

A visual representation of a taxonomy for cognitive objectives as a grid with verbs as rows and nouns as columns

Eytan Adar & Elsie Lee (2020). Communicative visualizations as a learning problem. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. [pdf]




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