TY - GEN
T1 - Storytelling in information visualizations
T2 - 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015
AU - Boy, Jeremy
AU - Detienne, Françoise
AU - Fekete, Jean Daniel
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright 2015 ACM.
PY - 2015/4/18
Y1 - 2015/4/18
N2 - We present the results of three web-based field experiments, in which we evaluate the impact of using initial narrative visualization techniques and storytelling on user-engagement with exploratory information visualizations. We conducted these experiments on a popular news and opinion outlet, and on a popular visualization gallery website. While datajournalism exposes visualizations to a large public, we do not know how effectively this public makes sense of interactive graphics, and in particular if people explore them to gain additional insight to that provided by the journalists. In contrast to our hypotheses, our results indicate that augmenting exploratory visualizations with introductory 'stories' does not seem to increase user-engagement in exploration.
AB - We present the results of three web-based field experiments, in which we evaluate the impact of using initial narrative visualization techniques and storytelling on user-engagement with exploratory information visualizations. We conducted these experiments on a popular news and opinion outlet, and on a popular visualization gallery website. While datajournalism exposes visualizations to a large public, we do not know how effectively this public makes sense of interactive graphics, and in particular if people explore them to gain additional insight to that provided by the journalists. In contrast to our hypotheses, our results indicate that augmenting exploratory visualizations with introductory 'stories' does not seem to increase user-engagement in exploration.
KW - Engagement
KW - Narrative visualization
KW - Social data analysis
KW - Storytelling
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84951050516
U2 - 10.1145/2702123.2702452
DO - 10.1145/2702123.2702452
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84951050516
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 1449
EP - 1458
BT - CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 18 April 2015 through 23 April 2015
ER -