Exploring the effects of colouring graph diagrams on people of various backgrounds

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Plimmer, Beryl, Morrison, Ann and Knoche, Hendrik. 2014. "Exploring the effects of colouring graph diagrams on people of various backgrounds." 8th International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams: Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (Diagrams 2014). Melbourne, Australia 28 Jul - 01 Aug 2014 Berlin, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44043-8_20
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Exploring the effects of colouring graph diagrams on people of various backgrounds

Presentation TypePaper
AuthorsPlimmer, Beryl (Author), Morrison, Ann (Author) and Knoche, Hendrik (Author)
Journal or Proceedings TitleDiagrammatic Representation and Inference
ERA Conference ID60511
Number of Pages14
Year2014
Place of PublicationBerlin, Germany
ISBN9783662440421
9783662440438
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44043-8_20
Web Address (URL) of Paperhttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-662-44043-8_20
Conference/Event8th International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams: Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (Diagrams 2014)
International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams
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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
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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.

Keywordscolour encoding of diagrams; graph diagram aesthetics; subjects disciplines' effects
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020460806. Human-computer interaction
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Aalborg University, Denmark
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