HCI methodologies and data visualization to foster user awareness

The purpose of this research concerns the integration between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Data Visualization to increase users’ awareness of issues of public interest. In particular, it wants to investigate how to design and develop meaningful and effective interactive data visualization and which HCI methodologies can be useful to design and validate these systems that can become effective tools to support communities of users in decision-making processes about issues such as sustainability.