Incidental Visualizations

Moreira, João Mendes; Mendes, Daniel; Gonçalves, Daniel

doi:10.1145/3399715.3399841

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“…38 Furthermore, it has been proven that pre-attentive graphical perception for incidental perception is effective in the subitizing range. 4 Therefore, we used the number of times each direction was chosen because there are only four possible directions for the character to move, which fits the subitizing range. We kept track of the keys pressed to generate the necessary data.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Finally, regarding incidental visualizations, it has been explored recently how people perform on pre-attentive graphical perception tasks. 4 In particular, the authors wanted to validate if certain known results like the ranking proposed by Cleveland and McGill 12 would be the same for incidental visualizations.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Since it is a relatively new topic, there is little related work regarding incidental visualizations apart from the Graphical Perception study we mentioned. 4 We know they inherit from peripheral displays because the information is supposed to be available at the periphery. Their scope of use is always side-by-side with an ongoing primary task, which is any task that does not involve looking at the incidental visualization.…”

Section: Incidental Visualizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For information visualization, this brought new opportunities regarding how information was received. New ways to convey data came to life such as glanceable, 2 ambient, 3 and incidental visualizations, 4 all inheriting from Peripheral Displays, no longer requiring users to stand still in front of a monitor.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In particular, until now, it has only been shown that it is possible to perceive information displayed for very short periods at specific moments. 4 However, regarding the ongoing tasks that are being conducted by people, it is not known yet how much seeing an incidental visualization disrupts their performance.…”

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Incidental visualizations are meant to be seen at-a-glance, on-the-go, and during short exposure times. They will always appear side-by-side with an ongoing primary task while providing ancillary information relevant to those tasks. They differ from glanceable visualizations because looking at them is never their major focus, and they differ from ambient visualizations because they are not embedded in the environment, but appear when needed. However, unlike glanceable and ambient visualizations that have been studied in the past, incidental visualizations have yet to be explored in-depth. In particular, it is still not clear what is their impact on the users’ performance of primary tasks. Therefore, we conducted an empirical online between-subjects user study where participants had to play a maze game as their primary task. Their goal was to complete several mazes as quickly as possible to maximize their score. This game was chosen to be a cognitively demanding task, bound to be significantly affected if incidental visualizations have a meaningful impact. At the same time, they had to answer a question that appeared while playing, regarding the path followed so far. Then, for half the participants, an incidental visualization was shown for a short period while playing, containing information useful for answering the question. We analyzed various metrics to understand how the maze performance was impacted by the incidental visualization. Additionally, we aimed to understand if working memory would influence how the maze was played and how visualizations were perceived. We concluded that incidental visualizations of the type used in this study do not disrupt people while they played the maze as their primary task. Furthermore, our results strongly suggested that the information conveyed by the visualization improved their performance in answering the question. Finally, working memory had no impact on the participants’ results.

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Incidental visualizations are meant to be perceived at-a-glance, on-the-go, and during short exposure times, but are not seen on demand. Instead, they appear in people’s fields of view during an ongoing primary task. They differ from glanceable visualizations because the information is not received on demand, and they differ from ambient visualizations because the information is not continuously embedded in the environment. However, current graphical perception guidelines do not consider situations where information is presented at specific moments during brief exposure times without being the user’s primary focus. Therefore, we conducted a crowdsourced user study with 99 participants to understand how accurate people’s incidental graphical perception is. Each participant was tested on one of the three conditions: position of dots, length of lines, and angle of lines. We varied the number of elements for each combination and the display time. During the study, participants were asked to perform reproduction tasks, where they had to recreate a previously shown stimulus in each. Our results indicate that incidental graphical perception can be accurate when using position, length, and angles. Furthermore, we argue that incidental visualizations should be designed for low exposure times (between 300 and 1000 ms).

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Incidental Visualizations

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References 34 publications

Impact of incidental visualizations on primary tasks

Impact of incidental visualizations on primary tasks

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Incidental graphical perception: How marks and display time influence accuracy

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