In-class study—graphical perception

Due 2023-09-15, 11:59pm EST 3pts 16min

Please ask any questions about this assignment in class, or later today on Slack.

Table of Contents

• Change log
  • Aim of the assignment
  • Background info
  • Instructions
  • Submission instructions
  • Grading rubric

Change log

• 2023-09-14: Changed due date to 2023-09-15 as we didn’t have time in class.

Aim of the assignment

In this exercise you will learn about where the basic rules of thumb we use come from. You will mock-participate in a controlled experiment studying graphical perception.

Note: You are NOT participating in ongoing research. Your data will not be collected or analyzed aside from showing you the individual rankings at the end. You will NOT be paid.

Background info

The guidelines we give about which visual encodings are most effective come from this kind of study. This is relevant for your next reading.

This study is from one of our published papers:

Liudas Panavas, Amy Worth, Tarik Crnovrsanin, Tejas Sathyamurthi, Sara Cordes, Michelle A. Borkin, and Cody Dunne. Juvenile graphical perception: A comparison between children and adults. In Proc. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems—CHI. 2022 DOI: 10.1145/3491102.3501893

See https://dunne.dev/pubs/Panavas2022JuvenileGraphicalPerception/ for more details.

Instructions

1. Open your browser to https://visdunneright.github.io/GPAdultsUserStudy/
2. Enter any integer for the name, age, and id fields.
3. Follow the directions on the site. (See above disclaimers.)

Submission instructions

Take a screenshot of your individual rankings and submit to In-class study—graphical perception in GradeScope.

Grading rubric

This is a satisfactory grading assignment. If you followed the instructions you receive full marks and if not you receive a 0.

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