Interactive Data Comics for Communicating Medical Data to the General Public
How can we communicate key information about health conditions and their management in a way that is easily understood by a general audience? In this MSc dissertation project, we developed an interactive data comic about cancer, following a user-centred design methodology. A between-group user study was carried out to compare the data comic’s ease of understanding and engagement, compared to a text medium that captures the same information. The study reveals that the data comic is perceived to be more engaging, and participants have greater recall and understanding of the cancer data, compared with the text medium.
Keywords
Information Visualisation, Health, Narrative Visualisation, MSc dissertation
Staff
Melissa Fogwill, Areti Manataki