Exploring the effects of colouring graph diagrams on people of various backgrounds
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Paper/Presentation Title | Exploring the effects of colouring graph diagrams on people of various backgrounds |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Plimmer, Beryl (Author), Morrison, Ann (Author) and Knoche, Hendrik (Author) |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Diagrammatic Representation and Inference |
ERA Conference ID | 60511 |
Number of Pages | 14 |
Year | 2014 |
Place of Publication | Berlin, Germany |
ISBN | 9783662440421 |
9783662440438 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44043-8_20 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-662-44043-8_20 |
Conference/Event | 8th International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams: Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (Diagrams 2014) |
International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams | |
Event Details | 8th International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams: Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (Diagrams 2014) Event Date 28 Jul 2014 to end of 01 Aug 2014 Event Location Melbourne, Australia |
Event Details | International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams |
Abstract | Colour is one of the primary aesthetic elements of a visualization. It is often used successfully to encode information such as the importance of a particular part of the diagram or the relationship between two parts. Even so, there are few investigations into the human reading of colour coding on diagrams from the scientific community. In this paper we report on an experiment with graph diagrams comparing a black and white composition with two other colour treatments. We drew our subjects from engineering, art, visual design, physical education, tourism, psychology and social science disciplines. We found that colouring the nodes of interest reduced the time taken to find the shortest path between the two nodes for all subjects. Engineers, tourism and social scientists proved significantly faster with artist/designers just below the overall average speed. From this study, we contribute that adding particular colour treatments to diagrams increases legibility. In addition, preliminary work investigating colour treatments and schemes indicates potential for future gains. © 2014 Springer-Verlag. |
Keywords | colour encoding of diagrams; graph diagram aesthetics; subjects disciplines' effects |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 460806. Human-computer interaction |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | University of Auckland, New Zealand |
Aalborg University, Denmark | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q3zz2/exploring-the-effects-of-colouring-graph-diagrams-on-people-of-various-backgrounds
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