An Evaluation of Information Visualization in Attention-Limited Environments
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Date
2002
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
People often need to quickly access or maintain awareness of secondary information while busy with other primary tasks. Information visualizations provide rapid, effective access to information, but are generally designed to be examined by users as the primary focus of their attention. The goal of this research is to discover how to design information visualizations intended for the periphery and to understand how quickly and effectively people can interpret information visualizations while they are busily performing other tasks. We evaluated how several factors of a visualization (visual density, presence time, and secondary task type) impact people s abilities to continue with a primary task and to complete secondary tasks related to the visualization. Our results suggest that, with relaxed time pressure, reduced visual information density and a single well-defined secondary task, people can effectively interpret visualizations with minimal distraction to their primary task.
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@inproceedings{:10.2312/VisSym/VisSym02/211-216,
booktitle = {Eurographics / IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization},
editor = {D. Ebert and P. Brunet and I. Navazo},
title = {{An Evaluation of Information Visualization in Attention-Limited Environments}},
author = {Somervell, Jacob and McCrickard, D. Scott and North, Chris and Shukla, Maulik},
year = {2002},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISSN = {1727-5296},
ISBN = {1-58113-536-X},
DOI = {/10.2312/VisSym/VisSym02/211-216}
}