Design and Evaluation of Visualization Techniques to Facilitate Argument Exploration

dc.contributor.authorKhartabil, D.en_US
dc.contributor.authorCollins, C.en_US
dc.contributor.authorWells, S.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBach, B.en_US
dc.contributor.authorKennedy, J.en_US
dc.contributor.editorBenes, Bedrich and Hauser, Helwigen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-08T07:38:20Z
dc.date.available2021-10-08T07:38:20Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractThis paper reports the design and comparison of three visualizations to represent the structure and content within arguments. Arguments are artifacts of reasoning widely used across domains such as education, policy making, and science. An is made up of sequences of statements (premises) which can support or contradict each other, individually or in groups through Boolean operators. Understanding the resulting hierarchical structure of arguments while being able to read the arguments' text poses problems related to overview, detail, and navigation. Based on interviews with argument analysts we iteratively designed three techniques, each using combinations of tree visualizations (sunburst, icicle), content display (in‐situ, tooltip) and interactive navigation. Structured discussions with the analysts show benefits of each these techniques; for example, sunburst being good in presenting overview but showing arguments in‐situ is better than pop‐ups. A controlleduser study with 21 participants and three tasks shows complementary evidence suggesting that a sunburst with pop‐up for the content is the best trade‐off solution. Our results can inform visualizations within existing argument visualization tools and increase the visibility of ‘novel‐and‐effective’ visualizations in the argument visualization community.en_US
dc.description.number6
dc.description.sectionheadersArticles
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume40
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.14389
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages447-465
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14389
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf14389
dc.publisher© 2021 Eurographics ‐ The European Association for Computer Graphics and John Wiley & Sons Ltden_US
dc.subjectinteraction
dc.subjectvisualization
dc.subjectText visualisation
dc.subjectHybrid visualisation techniques
dc.titleDesign and Evaluation of Visualization Techniques to Facilitate Argument Explorationen_US
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