dchikows – Section C -Looking-Outwards – 07

Chris Harrison is an Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. Harrison also directs the Future Interfaces Group which is a lab that creates novel computer interfaces and technologies that further a delightful human computer interaction. Harrison’s project called Digg Rings uses data from top news story outlets to create ring like images. The rings of each disk are composed of the ten top news stories that day relating to categories of the news. The disks are tree like in nature. As time goes on they get larger and larger and the rings grow based on the amount of views each story has. I enjoy this data visualization for news stories because of its similarity to how a tree grows in rings. Although, I think it would be interesting to see the project in different colors.

See more of Chris Harrison’s work