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Visualizations at First Sight: Do Insights Require Training?

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HCI and Usability for Education and Work (USAB 2008)

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Understanding novel visualizations can be a challenge even for experienced users. During iterative usability engineering phases in the DisCō project, visualizations of time-oriented data are explored by domain experts and non-experts. The aim of our study is to analyze the generation of knowledge and understanding by means of visualizations without previous user training. Focusing on applicability in various business domains for personnel planning and time scheduling, we tested mockups of visualizations with a method based on user-reported insights. Results show almost identical behavior of domain experts and non-experts when generating insights into the data from scratch. In the course of working with a visualization, an interchange of insights into the visualization and insights into the data was found.

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  1. Research Center KnowComm, Department for Knowledge and Communication Management, Danube University Krems, Austria

    Michael Smuc, Eva Mayr & Hanna Risku

  2. Department of Information and Knowledge Engineering, Danube University Krems, Dr. Karl Dorrek Str. 30, 3500, Krems, Austria

    Tim Lammarsch, Alessio Bertone, Wolfgang Aigner & Silvia Miksch

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Smuc, M. et al. (2008). Visualizations at First Sight: Do Insights Require Training?. In: Holzinger, A. (eds) HCI and Usability for Education and Work. USAB 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5298. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89350-9_19

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