Victoria Cabales

Articles

Articles by or about Victoria Cabales

Sensors > Environmental Reporting with Sensors

Democratizing data reporting from the ground up Building a dust sensor network

by Holly Kane | kaneholly , Victoria Cabales , David Wallach , Rachel Inderhees | rayrayr2d3

As the Trump administration continues to curtail funding for longstanding federal agencies like the EPA, citizens have taken it upon themselves to gather and contextualize the data formerly compiled by federal agencies. Scientists, academics and individuals have banded together to form save the data events to protect existing environmental data that has already been collected for fear it may be deleted or made inaccessible. This trend raises the question: Where will future data come from?...

Design Research > Sidebar

Context Without Clutter

by Abriel Siregar , Byron Pang , David Jacob , Patricia Song , Victoria Cabales

Unlike literature, articles are scarcely allowed to fully flesh out the worlds that they exist in. Brevity and intentionality are often required to keep audiences interested as well as to keep the article focused. Due to this however, readers are often unable to understand articles without some prior knowledge. For example, the prospect of reading an article about the politics of another country would be difficult without information on the players that are involved in...

Projects

Projects Victoria Cabales has worked on.

Auditing the NewsEvaluating News Quality on Smart Speakers

Alexa, Siri, Google Home, Cortana—smart speakers and agents are now used by about 20% of US homes. People use them to ask about weather, set timers, play games, get information, or listen to the news. But are these devices delivering high-quality news and information or could they be misinforming and sharing “junk” news? This project aims to find out. By developing an audit method that defines what queries to audit and systematically collects data on the results over time for those queries from several different smart speakers, the project will allow for an assessment and comparison of news quality from these different devices.

Environmental Reporting with Sensors

Sensor journalism uses sensors to collect information about our environment. It opens new possibilities for journalists enabling them to collect and process data that might not be available or at a level of detail not previously available.

Navigating Virtual Reality

Though many in journalism are excited about VR, few are addressing real issues with making it attractive and interactive for their audience. This story team will explore the idea of making multiple three-dimensional VR photos around a scene and linking them together so that the user can navigate it. They’ll be exploring complex VR design challenges, such as how to move around space without disorienting the user and how to easily author interactive environments.

SidebarContext without Clutter

Publishing a story requires a constant balancing act: you have to get to your point, but you don’t always know whether your audience is fully up-to-speed on the content. Or maybe in your research you found some really fascinating information, but you have to admit it’s kind of a distraction from your main point. The web was developed on the promise of linking between documents, but too often a simple link fails -- it doesn’t give the reader much sense of what sort of information is at the end of the link, and it runs the risk of sending your audience off down a rabbit hole, never to return to your work.