Exploring Context Switching and Cognition in Dual-View Coordinated Visualizations

  • Authors:
  • Gregorio Convertino;Jian Chen;Beth Yost;Young-Sam Ryu;Chris North

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CMV '03 Proceedings of the conference on Coordinated and Multiple Views In Exploratory Visualization
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Multiple-view visualizations are useful forfinding patterns in complex data sets, but littleresearch has been done on how they are used. Weperformed a controlled experiment to study cognitivestrategies and context switching by using combinationof visualizations and different task types asindependent variables, and collecting qualitative andquantitative data. To collect the data paper-basedtests, logging of participants' interactions, eyetracking,think-aloud techniques, and video recordingswere used. Unlike suggestions in literature, ourresults show that when considering dual-viewvisualizations the time cost for context switching maynot be significant, and similar visualizations mayactually cause more interference. Furthermore,orthogonal combinations appear to aid users inrecognizing patterns. Focusing attention andanalogical reasoning on spatial relationships areimportant cognitive abilities as well.