Jethel Hernandez, Stephanie Batio, Rebecca Mullen Lovett, Michael S Wolf, Stacy C Bailey
Missed Healthcare Visits During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study
Journal of primary care & community health
uncertainty visualizations general audiences become increasingly common designers must understand full impact uncertainty communication techniques viewers decision processes prior work demonstrates mixed performance outcomes respect individuals make decisions using various visual textual depictions uncertainty part inconsistency across findings may due overreliance task accuracy cannot provide comprehensive understanding uncertainty visualization techniques support reasoning processes work advance debate surrounding efficacy modern 1d uncertainty visualizations conducting converging quantitative qualitative analyses effort strategies used individuals provided quantile dotplots density plots interval plots mean plots textual descriptions uncertainty utilize two approaches examining effort across uncertainty communication techniques measure individual differences workingmemory capacity known operation span ospan task selfreports perceived workload via nasatlx results reveal visualization methods workingmemory capacity impact participants decisions specifically quantile dotplots density plots ie distributional annotations result accurate judgments interval plots textual descriptions uncertainty mean plots ie summary annotations additionally participants openended responses suggest individuals viewing distributional annotations likely employ strategy explicitly incorporates uncertainty judgments viewing summary annotations comparing quantile dotplots density plots work finds methods equally effective lowworkingmemory individuals however individuals highworkingmemory capacity quantile dotplots evoke accurate responses less perceived effort given results advocate inclusion converging behavioral subjective workload metrics addition accuracy performance disambiguate meaningful differences among visualization techniques