Shatarupa Thakurta Roy

Swaroop Panda, Shatarupa Thakurta Roy

Music Visualization is basically the transformation of data from the aural to the visual space. There are a variety of music visualizations, across applications, present on the web. Models of Visualization include conceptual frameworks helpful for designing, understanding and making sense of visualizations. In this paper, we propose a preliminary model for Music Visualization. We build the model by using two conceptual pivots, Visualization Stimulus and Data Property. To demonstrate the utility of the model we deconstruct and design visualizations with toy examples using the model and finally conclude by proposing further applications of and future work on our proposed model.

Swaroop Panda, Shatarupa Thakurta Roy

Teaching visualization design involve making students familiar and make them work with visualization models, framework and perspectives. Visualization research accommodates a plethora of perspectives emerging from researchers of varied backgrounds. These diverse range of perspectives give rise to multiples models, frameworks and perspectives to teach visualization design. In this paper, we look at an approach to visualization teaching by using improvisational techniques. The basic idea is to design a visualization without using an existing predefined model. Since improvisation, by definition, is not a model or a framework, this work presents a reflection on how improvisation can be a way of teaching visualization design.