Material for Design

Pictorials as a Material for Design

Pictorials are a great way to communicate design research. However, it can be difficult to find them in conference proceedings and lists, especially as they are sometimes not part of a separate track. So here is a live list the tries to draw together all of the published pictorials we have been able to find. If you would like yours to be included or if we have missed one, please get in touch! At this moment in time, pictorials are broadly being considers as landscape, visual-heavy, “full” research papers but not necessarily work-in-progress papers unless described as pictorials. This is subject to change.

Readers may be interest in a paper that analyses pictorials published in the 2024 Creativity and Cognition conference entitled A Review of Visual Strategies in Pictorials.

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    Creativity and Cognition (C&C)
    2024
    2023
    2022
    2021
    2019
    2017
    Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)
    2024
    2023
    2022
    2021
    2020
    2019
    2018
    2017
    2016
    2014
    Interacting with Computers

    The Interacting with Computers journal has recently (2024) started accepting pictorials as a submission type!

    Interaction Design and Children (IDC)
    2023
    2022
    Research through Design (RTD)

    All the RTD conferences are technically in a pictorial format. It is/was a great conference series that might one day return. Although we have broken them down by year, all but the 2013 edition can be found here.

    2013
    2015

    2017
    2019
    Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI)

    TEI is actually quite good as giving examples on their sites and still organise the pictorials in tracks, but here is the full list.

    2024
    2023
    2022
    2021
    2020
    VIS Arts Program (VISAP)

    VISAP does also have a list of their previous pictorials. The 2019 and 2020 links had to be extracted via other means as they giving 404’s.

    2023
    2022
    2021
    2020
    2019
    2018

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    Under construction, a visual format deserves a visual presentation!