Visualizing Information on Smartwatch Faces: A Review and Design Space

Alaul Islam (1, 2, 3, 4) , Tingying He (4, 2) , Anastasia Bezerianos (5) , Tanja Blascheck (6) , Bongshin Lee (7) , Petra Isenberg (4)

1 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2 Université Paris-Saclay
3 LISN - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique
4 AVIZ - Analysis and Visualization
5 ILDA - Interacting with Large Data - LISN
6 University of Stuttgart
7 Microsoft Research

We present a systematic review and design space for visualizations on smartwatches and the context in which these visualizations are displayed--smartwatch faces. A smartwatch face is the main smartwatch screen that wearers see when checking the time. Smartwatch faces are small data dashboards that present a variety of data to wearers in a compact form. Yet, the usage context and form factor of smartwatch faces pose unique design challenges for visualization. In this paper, we present an in-depth review and analysis of visualization designs for popular premium smartwatch faces based on their design styles, amount and types of data, as well as visualization styles and encodings they included. From our analysis we derive a design space to provide an overview of the important considerations for new data displays for smartwatch faces and other small displays. Our design space can also serve as inspiration for design choices and grounding of empirical work on smartwatch visualization design. We end with a research agenda that points to open opportunities in this nascent research direction. Supplementary material is available at: https://osf.io/nwy2r/.

Mots clés: Design space; Mobile data visualization; Smartwatch visualization; Smartwatch face design

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Alaul Islam, Tingying He, Anastasia Bezerianos, Tanja Blascheck, Bongshin Lee, et al.. Visualizing Information on Smartwatch Faces: A Review and Design Space. 2024. ⟨hal-04365013⟩