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most citedThe Role of Text in Visualizations: How Annotations Shape Perceptions of Bias and Influence Predictions

26 citations · 29 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.HC2026

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…

cs.HC2026

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…

cs.HC2025

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…

cs.HC2024

"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…

cs.CL2024★ 3 cited

Shallow Synthesis of Knowledge in GPT-Generated Texts: A Case Study in Automatic Related Work Composition

Anna Martin-Boyle, Aahan Tyagi, Marti A. Hearst +1

Numerous AI-assisted scholarly applications have been developed to aid different stages of the research process. We present an analysis of AI-assisted scholarly writing generated w…

cs.HC2024★ 26 cited

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…