5 papers
Beyond the Post Hoc User Study: Modeling Visual Decision-Making with Active Inference
Harrison J. Goldwyn, Graham Johnson, Christopher Ibarra +2
Empirical user studies are essential for evaluating visual encodings and can reveal perceptual and cognitive mechanisms, but they do not by themselves provide causal, predictive ac…
Visualizing in the Mind's Eye: Icon Design Shapes Mental Imagery of Fire Risks
Wen Xu, Anjana Arunkumar, Lace M. Padilla
We introduce mental imagery, or seeing images in the "mind's eye," as a cognitive process that can be shaped by data visualization design and in turn impact decisions. We found in…
Croissant Charts: Modulating the Performance of Normal Distribution Visualizations with Affordances
Racquel Fygenson, Enrico Bertini, Lace M. Padilla
Affordances, originating in psychology, describe how an object's design influences the physical and cognitive actions users may take. Past work applied affordance theory to visuali…
Cognitive Affordances in Visualization: Related Constructs, Design Factors, and Framework
Racquel Fygenson, Lace Padilla, Enrico Bertini
Classically, affordance research investigates how the shape of objects communicates actions to potential users. Cognitive affordances, a subset of this research, characterize how t…
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…