Do Disease Stories need a Hero? Effects of Human Protagonists on a Narrative Visualization about Cerebral Small Vessel Disease

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dc.contributor.authorMittenentzwei, Sarahen_US
dc.contributor.authorWeiß, Veronikaen_US
dc.contributor.authorSchreiber, Stefanieen_US
dc.contributor.authorGarrison, Laura A.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBruckner, Stefanen_US
dc.contributor.authorPfister, Malteen_US
dc.contributor.authorPreim, Bernharden_US
dc.contributor.authorMeuschke, Moniqueen_US
dc.contributor.editorBujack, Roxanaen_US
dc.contributor.editorArchambault, Danielen_US
dc.contributor.editorSchreck, Tobiasen_US
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-10T06:16:25Z
dc.date.available2023-06-10T06:16:25Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractAuthors use various media formats to convey disease information to a broad audience, from articles and videos to interviews or documentaries. These media often include human characters, such as patients or treating physicians, who are involved with the disease. While artistic media, such as hand-crafted illustrations and animations are used for health communication in many cases, our goal is to focus on data-driven visualizations. Over the last decade, narrative visualization has experienced increasing prominence, employing storytelling techniques to present data in an understandable way. Similar to classic storytelling formats, narrative medical visualizations may also take a human character-centered design approach. However, the impact of this form of data communication on the user is largely unexplored. This study investigates the protagonist's influence on user experience in terms of engagement, identification, self-referencing, emotional response, perceived credibility, and time spent in the story. Our experimental setup utilizes a character-driven story structure for disease stories derived from Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey. Using this structure, we generated three conditions for a cerebral small vessel disease story that vary by their protagonist: (1) a patient, (2) a physician, and (3) a base condition with no human protagonist. These story variants formed the basis for our hypotheses on the effect of a human protagonist in disease stories, which we evaluated in an online study with 30 participants. Our findings indicate that a human protagonist exerts various influences on the story perception and that these also vary depending on the type of protagonist.en_US
dc.description.number3
dc.description.sectionheadersCognition, Perception, and Stories
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forum
dc.description.volume42
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cgf.14817
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659
dc.identifier.pages123-135
dc.identifier.pages13 pages
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cgf.14817
dc.identifier.urihttps://diglib.eg.org:443/handle/10.1111/cgf14817
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International License
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectCCS Concepts: Human-centered computing -> Visualization design and evaluation methods; Scientific visualization
dc.subjectHuman centered computing
dc.subjectVisualization design and evaluation methods
dc.subjectScientific visualization
dc.titleDo Disease Stories need a Hero? Effects of Human Protagonists on a Narrative Visualization about Cerebral Small Vessel Diseaseen_US
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