NDLI: Establishing aesthetics based on human graph reading behavior: two eye tracking studies

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Huang, Weidong
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	A great deal of real-world data have graph structures, and such structures are often visualized into node-link diagrams for a better understanding of the data. Aesthetic criteria have been used as quality measures to evaluate the effectiveness of graph visualizations in conveying the embedded information to end users. However, commonly applied aesthetics are originally proposed based on common senses and personal intuitions; thus, their relevance to effectiveness is not guaranteed. It has been agreed that aesthetics should be established based on empirical evidence and derived from theories of how people read graphs. As the first step to this end, we have conducted two eye tracking studies in an attempt to understand the underlying mechanism of edge crossings, the most discussed aesthetic, affecting human graph reading performance. These studies lead to the findings of an important aesthetic of crossing angles and a graph reading behavior of geodesic path tendency. We demonstrate that eye tracking is an effective method for gaining insights into how people read graphs and that how aesthetics can be established based on human graph reading behavior.
Starting Page	93
Ending Page	105
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	16174909
Journal	Personal Technologies
Volume Number	17
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	16174917
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2011-10-29
Publisher Place	London
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Graph visualization Graph comprehension Aesthetics Edge crossings Crossing angles Geodesic path tendency Eye tracking User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction Computer Science Personal Computing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Management Science and Operations Research Library and Information Sciences Computer Science Applications Hardware and Architecture

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