Observing Strategies of Drawing Data Representations
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Editors
Basu, A
Stapleton, G
Linker, S
Legg, C
Manalo, E
Viana, P
Publication Date
2021ISBN
9783030860615
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Volume
12909 LNAI
Pages
537-552
Type
Book chapter
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Colarusso, F., Cheng, P., Garcia, G., Raggi, D., & Jamnik, M. (2021). Observing Strategies of Drawing Data Representations. In Basu, A. Springer International Publishing, Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. [Book chapter]. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86062-2_55
Abstract
New methods for the assessment of drawing strategies are examined that focus on the analysis of perceptual chunking. The methods are demonstrated with four diverse participants as they copied a line-graph and a bar-chart. Video recordings of the transcriptions were analysed stroke by stroke. Diverse global drawing strategies were used for the line graph whereas all four participants used a similar approach on the bar-chart, but with local differences. Performance fluency varied substantially, particularly in stimuli viewing frequency. Differences in behaviours can be explained in terms of how they perceptually chunked the stimuli. Sample GOMS models were constructed in order to verify that chunking explains the drawing strategies. The potential of using drawing transcription tasks to assess users’ competence with graphs and charts is discussed.
Keywords
Chunking, Competence measurement, Diagrams, Bar chart, Line graph, Graph comprehension, Task analysis, GOMS, Representations
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/R030650/1)
EPSRC (EP/T019603/1)
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86062-2_55
This record's DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.80285
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