Immersive data-driven storytelling refers to the meaningful employment of immersive technologies for narrative visualization.
Within this project, we investigate the way that data stories capture audiences and how the medium is elevated through the latest technologies (including, e.g., Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and Generative Artificial Intelligence). Our core contribution to this field, as of now, is a scoping review where we discuss how immersive data stories have emerged in scientific literature, journalism, and games.
Design Space: Users, Data, Narrative, and Space
To categorize the existing examples and pave the way to new applications, we created the following design space…
…and distilled eight themes, including the spatial embodiment of narration, the incorporation of the users and their context into narratives, and the balance between guiding the user versus promoting serendipity.
Related Publications
@article{MLRBD-2025-ImmDataStoriesReview,
author = {Juli\'{a}n M\'{e}ndez and Weizhou Luo and Rufat Rzayev and Wolfgang B\"{u}schel and Raimund Dachselt},
title = {Immersive Data-Driven Storytelling: Scoping an Emerging Field Through the Lenses of Research, Journalism, and Games},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics},
year = {2025},
month = {1},
doi = {10.1109/TVCG.2025.3531138},
publisher = {IEEE},
address = {New Jersey}
}List of additional material
Design Space (.pdf), Scoping Review Corpus & Codebook (.xlsx)
@inproceedings{luo2024storybook,
author = {Weizhou Luo and Mark Abdelaziz and Juli\'{a}n M\'{e}ndez and Rufat Rzayev},
title = {Between Pages and Reality: Exploring a Book Metaphor for Unfolding Data-driven Storytelling in Immersive Environments},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct)},
series = {ISMAR '24},
year = {2024},
month = {10},
location = {Seattle},
doi = {10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct64951.2024.00077},
publisher = {IEEE}
}
Related Student Projects
Design and Development of Visual Structures of Data-Driven Storytelling in Immersive Environments
Mark Abdelaziz June 19th, 2023 until November 20th, 2023
Supervision: Rufat Rzayev, Julián Méndez, Weizhou Luo, Raimund Dachselt
Natural Interaction for Exploring Immersive Data Stories
Patrick Nierling September 16th, 2024 until December 15th, 2024
Supervision: Weizhou Luo, Rufat Rzayev, Raimund Dachselt
Investigating Dancing Games to induce Immersion for Data-Driven Storytelling
Emmanuel Diehl September 1st, 2024 until November 17th, 2024
Supervision: Julián Méndez, Raimund Dachselt
Supporting Presenters in Immersive Data Stroytelling
Amadeus Schröter June 12th, 2023 until August 28th, 2023
Supervision: Rufat Rzayev, Weizhou Luo, Raimund Dachselt
Crafting and Designing Data-Driven Storytelling in Immersive Environments [INF-PM-FPA, SoSe 23]
Lea Meding June 12th, 2023 until September 30th, 2023
Supervision: Weizhou Luo, Rufat Rzayev
User-guided Immersive Storytelling [CMS-PROJ, SS 23]
Mark Abdelaziz January 27th, 2023 until May 19th, 2023
Supervision: Weizhou Luo, Rufat Rzayev, Raimund Dachselt