Nina(Zhuxiaona) Wei, Christine(Yenting) Liu {zwei7,ytliu}@uw.edu
#####Nina ######Main work:
- Project proposal write-up and edit
- Experiment Design
- Pilot test
- Ran experiment on Amazon Mechanical Turk
- Data analysis
- Research paper write-up and edit
- Made progress presentaion slides and final poster
######Minor work:
- Progress report edit
- Experiment program code edit
- Made poster materials
#####Christine ######Main work:
- Project proposal write-up and edit
- Progress report write-up
- Pilot test
- Code experiment program
- Ran experiment on Amazon Mechanical Turk
- Data analysis
- Made poster materials
######Minor work:
- Experiment Design
- Project proposal edit
- Research paper edit
We spent most of the time working on experiment design and data analysis, it is challengable while worthy to conduct on such a unique visualization research study. Also, we learned a lot from the discussion with Jeff, and Steven(MSR), and visitors' feedback from the final poster presentation inspired us as well. It is a valuable project as a whole, and we do enjoy the process.
####Abstract The research focuses on the effectiveness of communicating a simple chart to audiences. The original hypothesis is that presenting a single statistic data chart sequentially works better than presenting it un-sequentially, in terms of the degree of understanding for audience. Base on the hypothesis, nine simple charts contain bar, line and scatter plot charts are chosen from The Economist with designed follow-up questions to conduct experiments for quantifying participants’ degree of understanding toward the chart on Amazon Mechanical Turk. After analyzing 180 responses, the results turns out that presenting a chart sequentially comes out with better results. However, statistically speaking, there is no significant difference between presenting the chart sequentially and un-sequentially. We analyzed and discussed the reasons behind, and addressed our limitations and future work by the end of the paper.
Download our poster and final paper, Poster, Final Paper
To know about our research project and play with our experiments, please see our website at here.