THREAD Project: Co-Creation Workshop on Personal Data Visualisation

Track your data? Help design creative ways to visualise it beyond screens in this interactive co-creation workshop.

How do you visualise the data you collect about yourself?

Many of us track personal data every day; steps, workouts, sleep, habits, hobbies, or wellbeing. But most of this information stays hidden on our phones or apps.

In this interactive co-creation workshop, we’ll explore how personal data could be visualised in more meaningful and creative ways, especially within everyday spaces like the home.

You’ll work alongside researchers and other participants to reflect on the data you collect, how private it feels, and how it could be represented visually in ways that matter to you.

No design or creative experience is required; just curiosity and a willingness to share ideas.

What You’ll Do

During this hands-on session, you’ll take part in three collaborative activities:

1. Explore Your Personal Data
Reflect on the types of data you collect and why they matter to you.

2. Sketch Visual Concepts
Create simple sketches to explore different ways your data could be visualised.

3. Build a 3D Prototype
Use clay to model a physical representation of your data visualisation ideas.

The workshop is designed to be creative, informal, and collaborative.

Who This Workshop Is For

You might enjoy this workshop if you:

• Track fitness, wellbeing, or health data
• Monitor habits, productivity, or hobbies
• Participate in citizen science or data collection
• Are curious about data, design, or creative technologies

You do not need any design or technical experience to take part.

Why Participate?

By taking part, you will:

• Reflect on how and why you collect personal data
• Explore new ways of visualising data beyond screens
• Contribute to a research project exploring privacy-sensitive data visualisation
• Take part in a creative, hands-on workshop

Your ideas will help inform research on how people might represent personal data in ways that are meaningful, expressive, and privacy-aware.

Important Information

This workshop is part of a research study exploring personal data visualisation.
Participants will be asked to provide informed consent before taking part.

The workshop will last a maximum of 2.5 hours.

Coffee/Tea and cakes will be provided.

If you have any questions before registering, please feel free to contact the research team.