Weather report: A site-specific artwork interweaving human experiences and scientific data physicalization

Daniel F Keefe; Seth Johnson; Ross Altheimer; Deuk Geun Hong; Robert Hunter; Andrea J. Johnson; Maura Rockcastle; Marc T Swackhamer; Aaron Wittkamper

doi:10.1109/MCG.2018.042731653

Weather report: A site-specific artwork interweaving human experiences and scientific data physicalization

Daniel F Keefe, Seth Johnson, Ross Altheimer, Deuk Geun Hong, Robert Hunter, Andrea J. Johnson, Maura Rockcastle, Marc T Swackhamer, Aaron Wittkamper

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Abstract

Weather Report is a site-specific art installation that entices visitors to examine climate change at a human scale, both physically and metaphorically. Weather data are displayed using the balloons as physical pixels that can be touched, part of an effort to make objective, scientific data graspable by non-scientists. Visitors contrast these objective weather data with their own data - weather-related memories they enter at a kiosk to create a subjective weather record from the Twin Cities community.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	10-16
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
Volume	38
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MCG.2018.042731653
State	Published - Jul 1 2018

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This work was supported in part by a grant from the University of Minnesota Digital Design Center.

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© 1981-2012 IEEE.

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art and science
computer graphics
data physicalization
experiential analytics
interactive visualization
weather

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