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Beyond Initial Creation: Two Decades of Community-based Chart Revisions from Wikimedia Commons
Jasmine Y. Shih, Chase Stokes, Melanie Tory +1
Open online communities like Wikipedia offer a rich space for understanding the organic evolution of public-facing artifacts, but little is known about how these communities collec…
Visual Embellishments are Potential Distractions in Double-Column Reading
Songwen Hu, Chase Stokes, Marti Hearst +1
Eye-catching graphics, such as circular figure labels and word-scale visualizations, are increasingly being placed directly within long-form text paragraphs. Some research has clai…
Write, Rank, or Rate: Comparing Methods for Studying Visualization Affordances
Chase Stokes, Kylie Lin, Cindy Xiong Bearfield
A growing body of work on visualization affordances highlights how specific design choices shape reader takeaways from information visualizations. However, mapping the relationship…
An Analysis of Text Functions in Information Visualization
Chase Stokes, Anjana Arunkumar, Marti A. Hearst +1
Text is an integral but understudied component of visualization design. Although recent studies have examined how text elements (e.g., titles and annotations) influence comprehensi…
"It's a Good Idea to Put It Into Words": Writing `Rudders' in the Initial Stages of Visualization Design
Chase Stokes, Clara Hu, Marti A. Hearst
Written language is a useful tool for non-visual creative activities like writing essays and planning searches. This paper investigates the integration of written language in to th…
Give Text A Chance: Advocating for Equal Consideration for Language and Visualization
Chase Stokes, Marti A. Hearst
Visualization research tends to de-emphasize consideration of the textual context in which its images are placed. We argue that visualization research should consider textual repre…
The Role of Text in Visualizations: How Annotations Shape Perceptions of Bias and Influence Predictions
Chase Stokes, Cindy Xiong Bearfield, Marti A. Hearst
This paper investigates the role of text in visualizations, specifically the impact of text position, semantic content, and biased wording. Two empirical studies were conducted bas…
What Does the Chart Say? Grouping Cues Guide Viewer Comparisons and Conclusions in Bar Charts
Cindy Xiong Bearfield, Chase Stokes, Andrew Lovett +1
Reading a visualization is like reading a paragraph. Each sentence is a comparison: the mean of these is higher than those; this difference is smaller than that. What determines wh…
Why More Text is (Often) Better: Themes from Reader Preferences for Integration of Charts and Text
Chase Stokes, Marti Hearst
Given a choice between charts with minimal text and those with copious textual annotations, participants in a study (Stokes et al.) tended to prefer the charts with more text. This…
Striking a Balance: Reader Takeaways and Preferences when Integrating Text and Charts
Chase Stokes, Vidya Setlur, Bridget Cogley +2
While visualizations are an effective way to represent insights about information, they rarely stand alone. When designing a visualization, text is often added to provide additiona…
Seeing What You Believe or Believing What You See? Belief Biases Correlation Estimation
Cindy Xiong, Chase Stokes, Yea-Seul Kim +1
When an analyst or scientist has a belief about how the world works, their thinking can be biased in favor of that belief. Therefore, one bedrock principle of science is to minimiz…