Creative Data
Project Type: VR Data Visualisation | Role: Developer | Year: 2020
About
As a part of my bachelor’s studies at TU Berlin, we wanted to explore a new, non-traditional way of visualizing data – so we created an immersive VR experience in Unity where users follow a storyline to better understand complex information.
To evaluate the effectiveness of the application, we conducted user tests with carefully designed questionnaires based on established studies.
The VR experience consists of two environments and two different approaches to data visualization, creating four unique scenarios:
- Office + Numerical Data
- Office + Creative Data
- Nature + Numerical Data
- Nature + Creative Data
Numerical Data follows the classic approach – displaying numbers to represent concepts like income.
Creative Data transforms the environment based on the data. For example, a positive outcome might bring sunny weather and exotic fruits, while a negative result could mean rain and an empty landscape.
My Tasks
Together with the whole team, we created the storyline of a worker in a travel agency and the different ways of data visualisation. After that, we split into two groups, one for the Nature Environment and one for the Office Environment. I worked on the second one.
For that, I imported an asset pack and set up the environment. Then I implemented the player functionality and the different player interactions (e.g.money counting machine, opening the window, interaction with the monitors.). Finally, I was part of creating the user questionnaires and counducting the user test.
