(The Eurographics Association, 2021) Huth, Franziska; Awad-Mohammed, Miriam; Knittel, Johannes; Blascheck, Tanja; Isenberg, Petra; Byška, Jan and Jänicke, Stefan and Schmidt, Johanna
We report on an online study that compares three different representations to show topic diversity in social media threads: a word-sized visualization, a background color, and a text representation. Our results do not provide significant evidence that people gain knowledge about topic diversity with word-sized visualizations faster than with the other two conditions. Further, participants who were shown word-sized visualizations performed tasks with equally few or only slightly fewer errors.