Diagram Safari: A Visualization Literacy Game for Young Children

Johannes Gäbler; Christoph Winkler; Nóra Lengyel; Wolfgang Aigner; Christina Stoiber; Günter Wallner; Simone Kriglstein

doi:10.1145/3341215.3356283

Diagram Safari: A Visualization Literacy Game for Young Children

Johannes Gäbler
, Christoph Winkler
, Nóra Lengyel
, Wolfgang Aigner
, Christina Stoiber
, Günter Wallner
, Simone Kriglstein (Speaker)

TU Wien
St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences
Eindhoven University of Technology

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Abstract

Data literacy has become a critical skill for dealing with the complexities of the information-driven society of the 21st century. At the same time, data visualization has long escaped the boundaries of science and has become a pervasive - often unrecognized - part of our everyday lives. In this paper we introduce Diagram Safari, an educational game to foster data literacy among children 9 to 11 years old by teaching about diagrams and charts in a playful way. We report on the iterative design process and on a preliminary evaluation with 23 children showing that the game was well received and that the difficulty was appropriate for the target audience.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI PLAY '19 Extended Abstracts: Extended Abstracts of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts
Pages	389-396
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3341215.3356283
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	CHI Play 2019 - Duration: 22 Oct 2019 → 25 Oct 2019

Conference

Conference	CHI Play 2019
Period	22/10/19 → 25/10/19

Research Field

Former Research Field - Capturing Experience

Keywords

Educational games; visualization literacy; children

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Gäbler, J, Winkler, C, Lengyel, N, Aigner, W, Stoiber, C, Wallner, G & Kriglstein, S 2019, Diagram Safari: A Visualization Literacy Game for Young Children. in CHI PLAY '19 Extended Abstracts: Extended Abstracts of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts. pp. 389-396, CHI Play 2019, 22/10/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3341215.3356283

Diagram Safari: A Visualization Literacy Game for Young Children. / Gäbler, Johannes; Winkler, Christoph; Lengyel, Nóra et al.
CHI PLAY '19 Extended Abstracts: Extended Abstracts of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play Companion Extended Abstracts. 2019. p. 389-396.

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