Evaluating the Effect of Style in Information Visualization

• Published in: IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics Vol. 18; no. 12; pp. 2739 - 2748
• Main Authors: Vande Moere, A., Tomitsch, M., Wimmer, C., Christoph, B., Grechenig, T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.12.2012; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Abstracts; Adhesion; aesthetics; Benchmark testing; Data visualization; design; Electronic mail; evaluation; Guidelines; Integrity; Interactive; On-line systems; Online; online study; style; Subspace constraints; Usability; user experience; Visual; Visualization

This paper reports on a between-subject, comparative online study of three information visualization demonstrators that each displayed the same dataset by way of an identical scatterplot technique, yet were different in style in terms of visual and interactive embellishment. We validated stylistic a...