4 papers
Should We Dangle a Carrot? The Effect of Performance-based Incentives in Visualization Experiments
Abhraneel Sarma, Matthew Kay, Sheng Long +2
A perennial research question in visualization involves identifying which visual encodings for a particular dataset are most effective for users in performing a specific task. The…
Visual Stenography: Feature Recreation and Preservation in Sketches of Noisy Line Charts
Rifat Ara Proma, Michael Correll, Ghulam Jilani Quadri +1
Line charts surface many features in time series data, from trends to periodicity to peaks and valleys. However, not every potentially important feature in the data may correspond…
A Priest, a Rabbi, and an Atheist Walk Into an Error Bar: Religious Meditations on Uncertainty Visualization
Michael Correll, Lane Harrison
In this provocation, we suggest that much (although not all) current uncertainty visualization simplifies the myriad forms of uncertainty into error bars around an estimate. This a…
The Many Tendrils of the Octopus Map
Eduardo Puerta, Shani Spivak, Michael Correll
Conspiratorial thinking can connect many distinct or distant ills to a central cause. This belief has visual form in the octopus map: a map where a central force (for instance a na…