In Pursuit of Error: A Survey of Uncertainty Visualization Evaluation

• Published in: IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics Vol. 25; no. 1; pp. 903 - 913
• Main Authors: Hullman, Jessica, Xiaoli Qiao, Correll, Michael, Kale, Alex, Kay, Matthew
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.01.2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Confidence; Data visualization; Decision making; Decisions; Human behavior; Judgments; Measurement uncertainty; probability distribution; Semantics; subjective confidence; Task analysis; Taxonomy; Uncertainty; Uncertainty visualization; user study; Visualization

Understanding and accounting for uncertainty is critical to effectively reasoning about visualized data. However, evaluating the impact of an uncertainty visualization is complex due to the difficulties that people have interpreting uncertainty and the challenge of defining correct behavior with unc...