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The Effect of Narration on User Comprehension and Recall of Information Visualisations
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posted on 2020-01-01, 00:00 authored by H O Obie, C Chua, Iman Avazpour, Mohamed AbdelrazekMohamed Abdelrazek, J Grundy, T BednarzInformation visualisation researchers have posited that author-driven narratives will allow information to be conveyed efficiently and argue for the adoption of storytelling techniques in information visualisation. However, there is limited work describing the effects of author-driven narratives in users' comprehension and memorability of visualisations in relation to interactive visualisations. Recommendations for author-driven visualisation stories are largely based on anecdotal reports or research from the arts, and not on studies in information visualisation. To investigate these issues, we carried out a study that compared purely author-driven narratives with interactive visualisations devoid of author narratives, in terms of comprehension and short-term and long-term memorability. We found that the presence of narration in author-driven stories significantly aided the understanding of information but had no significant effect on the long-term recall of information from visualisations.
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Visual languages and human-centric computing. Symposium (2020 : Online from Dunedin, New Zealand)Pagination
1 - 4Publisher
IEEELocation
Dunedin, New ZealandPlace of publication
Piscataway, N.J.Publisher DOI
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2020-08-10End date
2020-08-14ISSN
1943-6092eISSN
1943-6106ISBN-13
9781728169019Language
engNotes
This conference was originally scheduled to be held in Dunedin, New Zealand, however due the 2020 Covid Pandemic, it was held onlinePublication classification
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VL/HCC 2020 : Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric ComputingUsage metrics
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