Alebri, Muna;
Costanza, Enrico;
Panagiotidou, Georgia;
Brumby, Duncan;
(2023)
Embellishments Revisited: Perceptions of Embellished Visualisations Through the Viewer's Lens.
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IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
IEEE
(In press).
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Abstract
Embellishments are features commonly used in everyday visualisations which are demonstrated to enhance assimilation and memorability. Despite their popularity, little is known about their impact on enticing readers to explore visualisations. To address this gap, we conducted 18 interviews with a diverse group of participants who were consumers of news media but non-experts in visualisation and design. Participants were shown ten embellished and plain visualisations collected from the news and asked to rank them based on enticement and ease of understanding. Extending prior work, our interview results suggest that visualisations with multiple embellishment types might make a visualisation perceived as more enticing. An important finding from our study is that the widespread of certain embellishments in the media might have made them part of visualisation conventions, making a visualisation appear more objective but less enticing. Based on these findings, we ran a follow-up online user study showing participants variations of the visualisations with multiple embellishments to isolate each embellishment type and investigate its effect. We found that variations with salient embellishments were perceived as more enticing. We argue that to unpack the concept of embellishments; we must consider two factors: embellishment saliency and editorial styles. Our study contributes concept and design considerations to the literature concerned with visualisation design for non-experts in visualisation and design.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Embellishments Revisited: Perceptions of Embellished Visualisations Through the Viewer's Lens |
| Event: | IEEE VIS 2023 |
| Location: | Melbourne, Australia |
| Dates: | 22 Oct 2023 - 27 Oct 2023 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?pu... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Visualizations, Embellishments, Non-experts in visualisation and design |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10174581 |
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