Linespace: a sensemaking platform for blind

Saiganesh Swaminathan, Thijs Roumen, Robert Kovacs, David Stangl, Stefanie Mueller and Patrick Baudisch

 

For visually impaired users, making sense of spatial information is difficult as they have to scan and memorize contents before being able to analyze it. Even worse, any update to the displayed contents invalidates their spatial memory, which can force them to manually rescan the entire display. Making display contents persist, we argue, is thus the highest priority in designing a sensemaking system for the visually impaired. We present a tactile display system based on a 3D printer that is designed with this goal in mind. [more coming soon]

 

TurkBench: Rendering the Market for Turkers

Benjamin V. Hanrahan, Jutta K. Willamowski,Saiganesh Swaminathan, and David B. Martin

 

Crowdworkers face a numerous challenges in turking in online labor markerts. We built a tool TurkBench that provides workers with a personalized market visualization and session management to help them navigate the market efficiently.[more coming soon]

 

Supporting The Design and Fabrication of Physical Visualizations

Saiganesh Swaminathan, Conglei Shi, Yvonne Jansen, Pierre Dragicevic, Lora Oehlberg, Jean-Daniel Fekete.

 

An increasing variety of physical visualizations are being built. However, crafting them remains a laborious process and demands expertise in both data visualization and digital fabrication. We present the MakerVis prototype, the first tool that integrates the whole workflow, from data filtering to physical fabrication.[more coming soon]