data physicalization and tactile cognition
In this interdisciplinary collaboration between designers and cognitive psychologists, we explore and visualize how people touch objects as they examine and try to gain information from them. We introduced a novel autographic technique for mapping traces of touch, using an analog UV tracer substance, leaving touch traces that provide clues about haptic cognition.
Lead:
Dietmar Offenhuber with Laura Perovich and Bernice Rogowitz
publications:
Offenhuber, Dietmar, Laura J Perovich, and Bernice Rogowitz. 2025. “Data at Hand - Exploring the Tactile Perception of Data Physicalizations.” In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Osaka, JP: ACM.
Perovich, Laura J, Bernice Rogowitz, Victoria Crabb, Jack Vogelsang, Sara Hartleben, and Dietmar Offenhuber. 2023. “The Tactile Dimension: A Method for Physicalizing Touch Behaviors.” In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–15. Hamburg Germany: ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581137.
Rogowitz, Bernice, Laura J. Perovich, Yuke Li, Bjorn Kierulf, and Dietmar Offenhuber. 2021. “Touching Art -- A Method for Visualizing Tactile Experience.” Presented at Alt.Vis 2021, October. http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00686.