The amount of visual communication we are facing is rapidly increasing, and skills to process, understand, and generate visual representations are in high demand. Especially students focusing on computer graphics and visualization can benefit from a more diverse education on visual literacy, as they often have to work on graphical representations for broad masses after their graduation. Our proposed teaching approach incorporates basic design thinking principles into traditional visualization and graphics education. Our course was inspired by the book Dear Data that was the subject of a lively discussion at the closing capstone of IEEE VIS 2017. The paper outlines our 12-week teaching experiment and summarizes the results extracted from accompanying questionnaires and interviews. In particular, we provide insights into the creation process and pain points of visualization novices, discuss the observed interplay between visualization tasks and design thinking, and finally draw design implications for visual literacy education in general.
翻译:我们面临的视觉交流数量正在迅速增加,处理、理解和产生视觉表现的技能需求很大。特别是侧重于计算机图形和视觉化的学生,能够从更多样化的视觉扫盲教育中受益,因为他们在毕业后往往必须为广大群众进行图形化展示。我们提议的教学方法将基本设计思维原则纳入传统视觉化和图形教育。我们的课程受到《爱达》一书的启发,这是2017年IEEE VIS封顶上热烈讨论的主题。论文概述了我们为期12周的教学实验,并总结了从所附问卷和访谈中提取的结果。特别是,我们提供了对视觉化点的创造过程和痛苦点的洞察,讨论了视觉化任务和设计思维之间的观察互动,并最终为一般视觉扫盲教育提出了设计影响。