Jonas Arndt Web Engineering

Jonas Arndt is a research associate at the Urban Complexity Lab. His main fields of interest are web-based scrollytelling and information visualizations.

E-Mail
jonas.arndt@fh-potsdam.de

Jonas holds a Bachelor’s degree in IT-Systems Engineering from Hasso Plattner Institute and a Computer Science diploma from the University of Potsdam. In his final thesis, he concentrated on the digitization of the thesis supervision process. Before joining the ᴜᴄʟᴀʙ, he worked as a freelancing web and app developer and as a software developer in research projects with a medical background. Currently, he is working on the project “VIDAN”, where he explores interaction and visualization techniques for the visual explanation and interactive exploration of complex data.

Projects Contributions

Project

Intervis

Inter...what? Intersectionality! A visual introduction
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VIDAN

Visual and dynamic arrangements of narratives

Publications Published Works

Disclosure as a critical-feminist design practice for Web-based data stories

— First Monday. 27:11, 2022
We present findings from design research on disclosure at the intersection of data visualization, digital storytelling, and feminism. While there is an increased awareness of power structures in data science, computing, and design, there is little design research to confront these. This work explores the potential of disclosing context information of data stories, i.e., digital storytelling formats utilizing data visualizations, to enable critical-feminist readings of and reflections on these stories. Drawing from a growing body of feminist scholarship in human-computer interaction, data science, and beyond, we identify key aspects and forms of disclosure for embedding them into visual data story interfaces. We devise and validate these aspects and forms within a case study: a Web-based scrollytelling article explaining the feminist concept of intersectionality using a combination of animated illustration, data visualization, and text. With this work, we demonstrate and discuss the potentials and pitfalls of disclosure practices in data storytelling.

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E-Mail
jonas.arndt@fh-potsdam.de