Making collaborative data physicalisations

This project investigated physical data presentations, physicalisations to explore ways of presenting data in physical, three-dimensional form, and understand how this would be received by users. This project first reviewed the field of tangible interaction and collaboration to identify a series of concepts to support the design of collaborative data physicalisation. Next, this research undertook a research through design and reflective approach to design, to create a new collaborative data physicalisation system. It then used observations and focus-groups to evaluate the design’s utility and explored how people employed physicalisation as part of their collaborative sense-making and meaning-making processes