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most citedDo You See What I See? A Qualitative Study Eliciting High-Level Visualization Comprehension

37 citations · 81 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.HC2026

Quick-View Takeaways: How Does Title Framing Influences Pattern Identification in Line Charts?

Jasmine Lim, Tapendra Pandey, Arran Zeyu Wang +1

Visual data communication in digital media is increasingly characterized by short attention spans and snapshot-based viewing, often employing line charts to convey trends and patte…

cs.HC2026

How Does Title Framing Influence Pattern Identification in Line Charts?

Jasmine Lim, Tapendra Pandey, Arran Zeyu Wang +2

Visual data communication in digital media is increasingly characterized by short attention spans and snapshot-based viewing, often employing line charts to convey trends and patte…

cs.HC2026

CatPAL: Task-Aware Learning for Categorical Palette Recommendation

Chin Tseng, Arran Zeyu Wang, Yunqi Li +1

Designing effective categorical palettes requires balancing a range of factors, including perceptual distinctiveness, category count, and task effectiveness. The effectiveness of c…

cs.HC2026

Multimodal Data Comprehension: Understanding How Visual-Textual Chains of Information Influence Data Interpretation

Arran Zeyu Wang, Fuling Sun, Danielle Albers Szafir

Visualizations and text often work together to support effective data communication. Despite this common paradigm, we know little about how the interplay of these modalities affect…

cs.HC2026

Contextualization or Rationalization? The Effect of Causal Priors on Data Visualization Interpretation

Arran Zeyu Wang, David Borland, Estella Calcaterra +1

Understanding how individuals interpret charts is a crucial concern for visual data communication. This imperative has motivated a number of studies, including past work demonstrat…

cs.HC2026★ 1 cited

Redundant is Not Redundant: Automating Efficient Categorical Palette Design Unifying Color & Shape Encodings with CatPAW

Chin Tseng, Arran Zeyu Wang, Ghulam Jilani Quadri +1

Colors and shapes are commonly used to encode categories in multi-class scatterplots. Designers often combine the two channels to create redundant encodings, aiming to enhance clas…

cs.HC2025

Graphical Perception of Icon Arrays versus Bar Charts for Value Comparisons in Health Risk Communication

Jade Kandel, Jiayi Liu, Arran Zeyu Wang +2

Visualizations support critical decision making in domains like health risk communication. This is particularly important for those at higher health risks and their care providers,…

cs.HC2025

Visual Analytics for Causal Reasoning from Real-World Health Data

Arran Zeyu Wang, David Borland, David Gotz

The increasing capture and analysis of large-scale longitudinal health data offer opportunities to improve healthcare and advance medical understanding. However, a critical gap exi…

cs.HC2025

Characterizing Visualization Perception with Psychological Phenomena: Uncovering the Role of Subitizing in Data Visualization

Arran Zeyu Wang, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Mengyuan Zhu +2

Understanding how people perceive visualizations is crucial for designing effective visual data representations; however, many heuristic design guidelines are derived from specific…

cs.HC2025

Screen Reader Programmers in the Vibe Coding Era: Adaptation, Empowerment, and New Accessibility Landscape

Nan Chen, Luna K. Qiu, Arran Zeyu Wang +2

Generative AI agents are reshaping human-computer interaction, shifting users from direct task execution to supervising machine-driven actions, especially the rise of "vibe coding"…

cs.HC2024★ 2 cited

Striking the Right Balance: Systematic Assessment of Evaluation Method Distribution Across Contribution Types

Feng Lin, Arran Zeyu Wang, Md Dilshadur Rahman +2

In the rapidly evolving field of information visualization, rigorous evaluation is essential for validating new techniques, understanding user interactions, and demonstrating the e…

cs.HC2024★ 6 cited

Shape It Up: An Empirically Grounded Approach for Designing Shape Palettes

Chin Tseng, Arran Zeyu Wang, Ghulam Jilani Quadri +1

Shape is commonly used to distinguish between categories in multi-class scatterplots. However, existing guidelines for choosing effective shape palettes rely largely on intuition a…

cs.HC2024★ 7 cited

Beyond Correlation: Incorporating Counterfactual Guidance to Better Support Exploratory Visual Analysis

Arran Zeyu Wang, David Borland, David Gotz

Providing effective guidance for users has long been an important and challenging task for efficient exploratory visual analytics, especially when selecting variables for visualiza…

cs.HC2024★ 7 cited

Causal Priors and Their Influence on Judgements of Causality in Visualized Data

Arran Zeyu Wang, David Borland, Tabitha C. Peck +2

"Correlation does not imply causation" is a famous mantra in statistical and visual analysis. However, consumers of visualizations often draw causal conclusions when only correlati…

cs.HC2024★ 4 cited

Our Stories, Our Data: Co-designing Visualizations with People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Keke Wu, Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Arran Zeyu Wang +4

Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) have unique needs and challenges when working with data. While visualization aims to make data more accessible to…

cs.HC2024

Revisiting Categorical Color Perception in Scatterplots: Sequential, Diverging, and Categorical Palettes

Chin Tseng, Arran Zeyu Wang, Ghulam Jilani Quadri +1

Existing guidelines for categorical color selection are heuristic, often grounded in intuition rather than empirical studies of readers' abilities. While design conventions recomme…

cs.HC2024★ 37 cited

Do You See What I See? A Qualitative Study Eliciting High-Level Visualization Comprehension

Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Arran Zeyu Wang, Zhehao Wang +3

Designers often create visualizations to achieve specific high-level analytical or communication goals. These goals require people to naturally extract complex, contextualized, and…

cs.HC2024★ 10 cited

An Empirical Study of Counterfactual Visualization to Support Visual Causal Inference

Arran Zeyu Wang, David Borland, David Gotz

Counterfactuals -- expressing what might have been true under different circumstances -- have been widely applied in statistics and machine learning to help understand causal relat…

cs.HC2024★ 7 cited

Using Counterfactuals to Improve Causal Inferences from Visualizations

David Borland, Arran Zeyu Wang, David Gotz

Traditional approaches to data visualization have often focused on comparing different subsets of data, and this is reflected in the many techniques developed and evaluated over th…