An Evaluation of the Impact of Visual Embellishments in Bar Charts

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorSkau, Drewen_US
dc.contributor.authorHarrison, Laneen_US
dc.contributor.authorKosara, Roberten_US
dc.contributor.editorH. Carr, K.-L. Ma, and G. Santuccien_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-22T12:51:25Z
dc.date.available2015-05-22T12:51:25Z
dc.date.issued2015en_US
dc.description.abstractAs data visualization becomes further intertwined with the field of graphic design and information graphics, small graphical alterations are made to many common chart formats. Despite the growing prevalence of these embellishments, their effects on communication of the charts' data is unknown. From an overview of the design space, we have outlined some of the common embellishments that are made to bar charts. We have studied the effects of these chart embellishments on the communication of the charts' data through a series of user studies on Amazon's Mechanical Turk platform. The results of these studies lead to a better understanding of how each chart type is perceived, and help provide guiding principles for the graphic design of charts.en_US
dc.description.number3en_US
dc.description.sectionheadersEvaluation and Designen_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume34en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.12634en_US
dc.identifier.pages221-230en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.12634en_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.titleAn Evaluation of the Impact of Visual Embellishments in Bar Chartsen_US
Files
Collections
34-Issue 3
EuroVis15: Eurographics Conference on Visualization