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This work introduces workshop-in-a-box as a design concept intended to challenge the researcher-centric approach to data physicalization workshops and its implications for extending visualization research outside the bounds of academia.
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Abstract Visualization researchers utilize workshops both for applied research and to engage different populations with visualization‐based activities. While there are many benefits to running visualization workshops, their utility and impact rely on the presence of a researcher who has deep knowledge about visualization theory and practice. In this work, we introduce workshop‐in‐a‐box as a design concept intended to challenge the researcher‐centric approach to data physicalization workshops. Through a design study with a socially innovative organization, we deployed several data physicalization workshops that our collaborator ran instead of us. Based on this experience, along with two accompanying case studies that validate the concept, we present material and procedural considerations for how to put data physicalization workshops into a box and the implications it has for extending visualization research outside the bounds of academia.
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@article{Akbaba2026Thinking,
title = {Thinking Inside the Box: Considerations for Putting Data Physicalization Workshops in a Box},
author = {Derya Akbaba and C. Svensson and C. Torelli and M. Callmeryd and Miriah Meyer},
journal = {Computer Graphics Forum},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.1111/cgf.70453},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.70453}
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