# Data Comic

**Information summarized from the research article**
*CHI ’22 Extended Abstracts, April 29–May 05, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA © 2022 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). ACM ISBN 978-1-4503-9156-6/22/04.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3503561*
*Authors: Md Tanvir Hasan, Annika Wolff, Antti Knutas, Anne Pässilä, Lasse Kantola*

*Wiki article abbreviated by:* S M Tahsinur Rahman, Taiwo Bamigbala. LUT University.

Summary
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**Art-form**^1^: Sequential, Visual, and Performing Art.


Painted by Mars Hokkanen, Photo by Lasse Kantola

*Data Comic*

**Requirements**
* Time: Over six (6) hours
* Difficulty^2^: 2 stars 
* What you'll need: Game cards, pencils, markers, and paper for sketching
* Participants: Students from diverse backgrounds (teenagers)

Description
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**Steps**
1. Ice breaking session and introduction session among participants
2. Facilitator divides participants into groups based on a matchmaking game from the ice-breaking session.
3. Card games designed based on concept of data comic are provided to the participants in each group.
4. Facilitator engages the participants in discussion based on the content of the games the participants have played.
5. Afterwards, participants answer questions from e.g., a mythological character by making various kinds of sketches based on what they learnt from the card games.

**Which stage to use it in**
* Ideation
* Data Visualization
* Engaging teenagers in participatory projects

**Why it is useful**

It helps to lower participatory barriers in co-design process for people who lack data literacy skills by making the process of understanding data to be fun, interactive, interesting, and straightforward.

**How to document**
Survey questionnaires, Videos and Photos

**Analysis**
Inductive thematic analysis, Qualitative analysis

**Further Reading**
Please Read more about the [LUT Case study](https://hackmd.io/UQclx_e2Q82sy7ZuvkIGGg) where this method has been applied.

*Footnotes*

^1^ Categories are based on Sara Coemans and Karin Hannes. 2017. Researchers under the spell of the arts: Two decades of using arts-based methods in community-based inquiry with vulnerable populations. Educational Research Review 22 (2017), 34–49.
^2^ 1-5 stars, I star being easy to facilitate and do not require deep artistic skills and 5 stars requiring deep level artistic skills.

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