Caroline Ziemkiewicz|Robert Kosara
The Shaping of Information by Visual Metaphors
University of North Carolina at Charlotte|University of North Carolina at Charlotte
nature information visualization considered lie visual metaphors uses structure information process understanding visualization therefore involves interaction external visual metaphors users internal knowledge representations investigate claim conducted experiment test effects visual metaphor verbal metaphor understanding tree visualizations participants answered simple data comprehension questions viewing either treemap nodelink diagram questions worded reflect verbal metaphor either compatible incompatible visualization participant using results based correctness response time suggest visual metaphor indeed affects user derives information visualization additionally found degree user affected metaphor strongly correlated users ability answer task questions correctly findings first step towards illuminating visual metaphors shape user understanding significant implications evaluation application theory visualization