How Sensemaking Tools Influence Display Space Usage
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2017
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
We explore how the availability of a sensemaking tool influences users' knowledge externalization strategies. On a large display, users were asked to solve an intelligence analysis task with or without a bidirectionally linked concept-graph (BLC) to organize insights into concepts (nodes) and relations (edges). In BLC, both nodes and edges maintain links to the exact source phrases and sections in associated documents. In our control condition, we were able to reproduce previously described spatial organization behaviors using document windows on the large display. When using BLC, however, we found that analysts apply spatial organization to BLC nodes instead, use significantly less display space and have significantly fewer open windows.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:eurova.20171112,
booktitle = {EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics (EuroVA)},
editor = {Michael Sedlmair and Christian Tominski},
title = {{How Sensemaking Tools Influence Display Space Usage}},
author = {Geymayer, Thomas and Waldner, Manuela and Lex, Alexander and Schmalstieg, Dieter},
year = {2017},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-042-0},
DOI = {10.2312/eurova.20171112}
}