Can Young Children Make Sense of their Own Data through Constructive Physicalization? A Qualitative Study
Although we know a lot about how adults read and utilize visualizations, we barely know anything about how children do so. We report the results of a qualitative study in which children aged 4–6 were asked to map, encode, and derive insights from creating physical data representations of their emotions using art and craft materials over a period of two weeks.We found that young children can encode and decode data, derive insights and self-reflect when engaging in a constructive physicalization activity.
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