Visualization Building Blocks and Scenarios: A Card-Game Based Learning Framework for the InfoVis Design Space

We present ViBBS, a card-game based learning framework for students to explore the infovis design space on their own. At its core are cards with building blocks that represent visualization design concepts. Students are required to combine suitable building blocks (visualization idioms, interactions, etc.) to tackle challenges posed by visualization scenarios. This can be combined with different mechanisms to create games that suit different learning goals, skills, topics, and experience levels. Our research question is how game mechanisms can be created for different learning situations and challenges, and how these are adopted by our students.