Disentangling the Power Dynamics in Participatory Data Physicalisation

This dataset contains files used in the publication:
Silvia Cazacu, Georgia Panagiotidou, Thérèse Steenberghen, and Andrew Vande Moere. 2025. Disentangling the Power Dynamics in Participatory
Data Physicalisation. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), April 26-May 1, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 19 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713703

The .csv file documents the systematic literature review of Participatory Data Physicalisation (PDP) examples and the ontology used to qualitatively analyse these examples.

Here, we synthesised contributions from both participatory design and visualisation literature by building a cross-disciplinary ontology structured along five fundamental dimensions WHO, WHAT, WHY, WHEN/WHERE and HOW.
We then applied this cross-disciplinary ontology through a codebook thematic analysis
to a representative corpus of 23 PDP artefacts that were identified via a systematic literature review.
This analysis resulted in a series of themes, sub-themes and codes that revealed the context in which power dynamics operate when multiple individuals are invited to construct PDPs collaboratively.
By then reflecting upon these themes, sub-themes and codes, this paper presents three contributions:
1) a cross-disciplinary ontology that facilitates the systematic analysis of various PDP artefacts and processes;
2) a critical analysis that calls for increasing the power of participants through accurate issue representation, contextualized data, greater expressive freedom and ability to voice dissent;
3) the most prominent power dynamics in current PDP practice that highlight the need to involve participants more in the planning, deployment and construction of PDP.

The .jpg shows an early version of the ontology - screenshot from Miro.
The .png represents an overview of the 23 PDP artefact analysed.