AfriCHI Workshop:
Visualization of African Knowledge to embody the Spirit of African Storytelling

Principles, Practices, Evaluation

Visualization provides a mechanism for extending and enhancing human cognitive capacity, helping us to create and transfer knowledge.

Story telling is part of the knowledge creation tradition and knowledge base of most African cultures.

This workshop brings together these two themes to launch an exciting new direction in knowledge visualisation research.

Workshop Aim

Considering the visualisation of storytelling knowledge

Benchmarking

Benchmarking of visualisation guidelines for this context

More Details

One Day Workshop

Tools: You, Your Stories

Objective

To support the creation, capture and transfer of contextual knowledge

Target Audience

HCI researchers, designers and practitioners interested in using visualization for knowledge creation and transfer

Anticipated Outcome

(a) network building (b) papers for a special issue of the Advances in Human-Computer Interaction Journal.

Goal 1

Overview of storytelling and visualisation techniques to be used in participatory design

Goal 2

Discussion and presentations on the use of storytelling and visualisation in teaching and learning.

Goal 3

Group discussions will address specific issues suggested by participants specifically towards benchmarking knowledge visualizations based on storytelling