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- Publication Type: Conference Paper
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- Date: June 2017
- Booktitle: EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics
- Event: EuroVis 2017
- Lecturer: Thomas Geymayer
- Keywords: sensemaking, large displays, evaluation
Abstract
We explore how the availability of a sensemaking tool influences users’ knowledge externalization strategies. On a large display,
users were asked to solve an intelligence analysis task with or without a bidirectionally linked concept-graph (BLC) to organize
insights into concepts (nodes) and relations (edges). In BLC, both nodes and edges maintain “deep links” to the exact source
phrases and sections in associated documents. In our control condition, we were able to reproduce previously described spatial
organization behaviors using document windows on the large display. When using BLC, however, we found that analysts apply
spatial organization to BLC nodes instead, use significantly less display space and have significantly fewer open windows.
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BibTeX
@inproceedings{geymayer-2017-std,
title = "How Sensemaking Tools Influence Display Space Usage",
author = "Thomas Geymayer and Manuela Waldner and Alexander Lex and
Dieter Schmalstieg",
year = "2017",
abstract = "We explore how the availability of a sensemaking tool
influences users’ knowledge externalization strategies. On
a large display, users were asked to solve an intelligence
analysis task with or without a bidirectionally linked
concept-graph (BLC) to organize insights into concepts
(nodes) and relations (edges). In BLC, both nodes and edges
maintain “deep links” to the exact source phrases and
sections in associated documents. In our control condition,
we were able to reproduce previously described spatial
organization behaviors using document windows on the large
display. When using BLC, however, we found that analysts
apply spatial organization to BLC nodes instead, use
significantly less display space and have significantly
fewer open windows.",
month = jun,
booktitle = "EuroVis Workshop on Visual Analytics",
event = "EuroVis 2017",
keywords = "sensemaking, large displays, evaluation",
URL = "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2017/geymayer-2017-std/",
}