Interaction Design, 5th Edition

Chapter 10DATA AT SCALE

1. 10.1 Introduction
2. 10.2 Approaches for Collecting and Analyzing Data
3. 10.3 Visualizing and Exploring Data
4. 10.4 Ethical Design Concerns

 

Objectives

The main goals of the chapter are to accomplish the following:

• Provide an overview of some of the potential impacts of data at scale on society.
• Introduce key methods for collecting data at scale.
• Discuss how data at scale becomes meaningful.
• Review key methods for visualizing and exploring data at scale.
• Introduce design principles for making data at scale ethical.

10.1 Introduction

How do you start your day? How much data do you encounter when first looking at your smartphone, switching on your laptop, or turning on another device? How much do you knowingly create and how much do you create unknowingly? Upon waking up, many people routinely will ask their personal assistant, something like, “Alexa, what is the weather today?” or “Alexa, what is the news?” or “Alexa, is the S-Bahn train to Schönefeld Airport running on time?” Or, they will ask Siri, “What is my first meeting?” or “Where is the meeting?”

Having oriented themselves for the day, people will walk a few blocks to the subway entrance, dip their Metro Card in the turnstile to pay the fare, exit the station at their stop, grab their favorite morning beverage at a nearby cafe, and proceed to their office where they check in with the employee card at a security gate and take the elevator to their floor.

These are just a few of the things that ...