Browsing by Author "Crouser, R. Jordan"

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    Investigating the Role of Locus of Control in Moderating Complex Analytic Workflows
    (The Eurographics Association, 2020) Crouser, R. Jordan; Ottley, Alvitta; Swanson, Kendra; Montoly, Ananda; Kerren, Andreas and Garth, Christoph and Marai, G. Elisabeta
    Throughout the last decade, researchers have shown that the effectiveness of a visualization tool depends on the experience, personality, and cognitive abilities of the user. This work has also demonstrated that these individual traits can have significant implications for tools that support reasoning and decision-making with data. However, most studies in this area to date have involved only short-duration tasks performed by lay users. This short paper presents a preliminary analysis of a series of exercises with 22 trained intelligence analysts that seeks to deepen our understanding of how individual differences modulate expert behavior in complex analysis tasks.
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    Survey on Individual Differences in Visualization
    (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2020) Liu, Zhengliang; Crouser, R. Jordan; Ottley, Alvitta; Smit, Noeska and Oeltze-Jafra, Steffen and Wang, Bei
    Developments in data visualization research have enabled visualization systems to achieve great general usability and application across a variety of domains. These advancements have improved not only people's understanding of data, but also the general understanding of people themselves, and how they interact with visualization systems. In particular, researchers have gradually come to recognize the deficiency of having one-size-fits-all visualization interfaces, as well as the significance of individual differences in the use of data visualization systems. Unfortunately, the absence of comprehensive surveys of the existing literature impedes the development of this research. In this paper, we review the research perspectives, as well as the personality traits and cognitive abilities, visualizations, tasks, and measures investigated in the existing literature. We aim to provide a detailed summary of existing scholarship, produce evidence-based reviews, and spur future inquiry.