Charts and graphs are becoming ubiquitous in daily life, regularly seen as people explore stocks, politics, social media, and more. Data visualization literacy is the measure of one's ability to interpret visually-displayed data. In this project, we create a visualization-literacy-focused game as an engaging and entertaining method of testing and improving data visualization literacy. We evaluate our project through an experiment with pre- and post- tests based on peer-reviewed visualization literacy surveys. The results of these evaluations suggest that our game is capable of improving the data visualization literacy of a player. This success opens a path to future game-based methods of improving data visualization literacy.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Copeland, Brian
• Griffin, Christopher
• Craft, William J.
• Bianco, Christopher Earl
• Kononenko, Natalia

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042518-114044

Advisor

• Harrison, Lane T.

Year

• 2018

Date created

• 2018-04-25

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Interdisciplinary
• Computer Science

Rights statement

• In Copyright