This is the repository of supplemental materials for the paper on "**Designing Visualization Widgets for Tangible Data Exploration: A Systematic Review**", published in **2025 IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS)**, doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2507.00775. Our interactive website is available online at physicalviswidget.github.io.
To cite the paper:
```
@INPROCEEDINGS{Yao:2025:VisWidgets,
author={Yao, Haonan and Yu, Lingyun and Yao, Lijie},
booktitle={2025 IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS)},
title={Designing Visualization Widgets for Tangible Data Exploration: A Systematic Review},
year={2025},
volume={},
number={},
pages={},
keywords={Visualization widget;Tangible interaction;Data exploration},
note={early access},
doi={10.48550/arXiv.2507.00775}
}
```
In this repository, we provide:
- **(a) systematic review**:
- **Systematic Review.xlsx**: The metadata used for our analysis and categorization.
- **(b) coding co-occurrences**:
- **Co-occurrences_dimensions.png**: The detailed version of dimensions in the systematic review.
- **Co-occurrences_representation.png**: The detailed version of task entity's representation.
- **(c) definitions of the physical form and functional shape**:
- **Definitions.pdf**: The definitions of physical form and functional shape of widgets with examples from our review.
We additionally provide the author version of the paper: **paper_authorversion.pdf**.
