Reading Numeric Data Tables: Viewer Behavior and the Effect of Visual Aids

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dc.contributor.authorJi, YongFeng
dc.contributor.supervisorNacenta, Miguel
dc.contributor.supervisorPerin, Charles
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-21T22:45:00Z
dc.date.available2023-12-21T22:45:00Z
dc.date.copyright2023en_US
dc.date.issued2023-12-21
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Computer Scienceen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science M.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractData tables are one of the most common ways in which people encounter data. Although mostly built with text and numbers, data table representations have strong spatial components, and often exhibit visual elements meant to facilitate their reading. there is an empirical knowledge gap on how people read and use tables and how different visual aids affect people’s ability to use them. In this work, I seek to address this gap through a series of empirical studies. I asked participants to repeatedly perform five different tasks with tables in four conditions where the table representations consisted of Plain tables, tables with Zebra striping, with cell background color encoding the value, and with background bar length in a cell encoding its value. I analyzed the gathered data in multiple ways to characterize human behavior when accessing tables and to assess the benefits of the different visual aids.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/15752
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectVisualizationen_US
dc.subjectData Tableen_US
dc.subjectTableen_US
dc.subjectHuman–computer interactionen_US
dc.titleReading Numeric Data Tables: Viewer Behavior and the Effect of Visual Aidsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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