An Overview of the Design and Development for Dynamic and Physical Bar Charts

Abstract

This paper aims to present the design process of dynamic data physicalization for bar charts and their variants, simple bars, stacked bars, and clustered bars. The physical artifact has 12 bars that are automatically configured according to the dataset by electromechanical components controlled by an Arduino board. The models of the printed 3D parts, the electromechanical components used and their connection scheme, the design aspects to set up the dynamic physical visualization according to the data, how the users choose the dataset and the kind of physical chart, usage scenarios with different types of charts and physicalization parameters are presented in detail. Finally, some strengths and difficulties in creating dynamic physical visualizations are highlighted and future works are proposed.