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Data Through Others' Eyes: The Impact of Visualizing Others' Expectations on Visualization Interpretation

Kim, Yea-Seul, Reinecke, Katharina, Hullman, Jessica·2018·IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Abstract

In addition to visualizing input data, interactive visualizations have the potential to be social artifacts that reveal other people's perspectives on the data. However, how such social information embedded in a visualization impacts a viewer's interpretation of the data remains unknown. Inspired by recent interactive visualizations that display people's expectations of data against the data, we conducted a controlled experiment to evaluate the effect of showing social information in the form of other people's expectations on people's ability to recall the data, the degree to which they adjust their expectations to align with the data, and their trust in the accuracy of the data. We found that social information that exhibits a high degree of consensus lead participants to recall the data more accurately relative to participants who were exposed to the data alone. Additionally, participants trusted the accuracy of the data less and were more likely to maintain their initial expectations when other people's expectations aligned with their own initial expectations but not with the data. We conclude by characterizing the design space for visualizing others' expectations alongside data.

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  • Persuasiveness of visualized data depends on both context and visualization designs.

    “Prior work suggests that persuasiveness of visualized data depends on both context (does the topic align with the viewers' prior beliefs?) and visualization designs (tabular design or bar graphs) [25, 26, 34].”

    From Illusion of Causality in Visualized Data (2020) · cites this paper as [25]

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Authors
Kim, Y.-S., Reinecke, K., & Hullman, J.
Affiliations
University of Washington (US)
Venue
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Published
2018-01
Volume
24
Issue
1
Pages
760-769
ISSN
1077-2626 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2751777857
Cited by
60
References
46
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 4
FWCI
2.73
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Data Visualization and Analytics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
Keywords
interactive visualization, consensus
MeSH terms
Data Visualization, Computer Graphics, Humans, Motivation, Mental Recall, Social Perception, Databases, Factual, Trust, Crowdsourcing

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