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Understanding and evaluating uncertainty play a key role in decision-making. When a viewer studies a visualization that demands inference, it is necessary that uncertainty is portrayed in it. This paper showcases the importance of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Krisha Mehta

Better representation of the uncertainty in a data visualisation is a focus of recent research activity. A problem with the current literature is that there is a lack of clarity about the definition of uncertainty and what it means to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Harriet Mason , Dianne Cook , Sarah Goodwin , Emi Tanaka , Susan VanderPlas

Uncertainty visualizations often emphasize point estimates to support magnitude estimates or decisions through visual comparison. However, when design choices emphasize means, users may overlook uncertainty information and misinterpret…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Alex Kale , Matthew Kay , Jessica Hullman

Set visualization facilitates the exploration and analysis of set-type data. However, how sets should be visualized when the data is uncertain is still an open research challenge. To address the problem of depicting uncertainty in set…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Christian Tominski , Michael Behrisch , Susanne Bleisch , Sara Irina Fabrikant , Eva Mayr , Silvia Miksch , Helen Purchase

AI-powered predictive systems have high margins of error. However, data visualisations of algorithmic systems in education and other social fields tend to visualise certainty, thus invisibilising the underlying approximations and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Felicitas Macgilchrist , Juliane Jarke

Thematic maps are widely used to communicate spatial patterns to non-expert audiences. Although uncertainty is inherent in thematic map data, it is rarely visualized, raising questions about how its inclusion affects trust. Prior work…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Varun Srivastava , Fan Lei , Alan M. MacEachren , Ross Maciejewski

Understanding and communicating data uncertainty is crucial for making informed decisions in sectors like finance and healthcare. Previous work has explored how to express uncertainty in various modes. For example, uncertainty can be…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Chase Stokes , Chelsea Sanker , Bridget Cogley , Vidya Setlur

Clinician-facing predictive models are increasingly present in the healthcare setting. Regardless of their success with respect to performance metrics, all models have uncertainty. We investigate how to visually communicate uncertainty in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Caitlin F. Harrigan , Gabriela Morgenshtern , Anna Goldenberg , Fanny Chevalier

Uncertainty is an inherent aspect of autonomous vehicle (AV) decision-making, yet it is rarely communicated to pedestrians, which hinders transparency. This study investigates how AV uncertainty can be conveyed through two approaches:…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Yue Luo , Xinyan Yu , Tram Thi Minh Tran , Marius Hoggenmueller

Interpreting uncertain data can be difficult, particularly if the data presentation is complex. We investigate the efficacy of different modalities for representing data and how to combine the strengths of each modality to facilitate the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Chase Stokes , Chelsea Sanker , Bridget Cogley , Vidya Setlur

User trust is a crucial consideration in designing robust visual analytics systems that can guide users to reasonably sound conclusions despite inevitable biases and other uncertainties introduced by the human, the machine, and the data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Joshua Boley , Maoyuan Sun

Senders of messages prefer to communicate uncertainty verbally (e.g., something is likely to happen) rather than numerically (such as 75%), leaving receivers with imprecise information. While it is well established that receivers translate…

General Economics · Economics 2026-05-21 Robin Bodenberger , Kirsten Thommes

Alternative text is critical in communicating graphics to people who are blind or have low vision. Especially for graphics that contain rich information, such as visualizations, poorly written or an absence of alternative texts can worsen…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Crescentia Jung , Shubham Mehta , Atharva Kulkarni , Yuhang Zhao , Yea-Seul Kim

Public-facing data visualizations can play a vital role in making complex information clear and engaging, thereby encouraging informed public discourse and participation. However, existing work offers limited insight into how practitioners…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Regina Schuster , Kathleen Gregory , Torsten Möller , Laura Koesten

There exists limited theoretical guidance on integrating visualization and sonification. In this paper, we address this gap by investigating audiovisual semiotics for uncertainty representation: joining uncertainty visualization and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Sita Vriend , David Hägele , Daniel Weiskopf

Significant research has provided robust task and evaluation languages for the analysis of exploratory visualizations. Unfortunately, these taxonomies fail when applied to communicative visualizations. Instead, designers often resort to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Eytan Adar , Elsie Lee

Despite the importance of viewers' trust in data visualization, there is a lack of research on the viewers' own perspective on their trust. In addition, much of the research on trust remains relatively theoretical and inaccessible for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Oen McKinley , Saugat Pandey , Alvitta Ottley

Statisticians are not only one of the earliest professional adopters of data visualization, but also some of its most prolific users. Understanding how these professionals utilize visual representations in their analytic process may shed…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Eric Newburger , Niklas Elmqvist

We conduct a deconstructive reading of a qualitative interview study with 17 visual data journalists from newsrooms across the globe. We borrow a deconstruction approach from literary critique to explore the instability of meaning in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Ke Er Amy Zhang , Jodie Jenkinson , Laura Garrison

Uncertainty of scientific findings are typically reported through statistical metrics such as $p$-values, confidence intervals, etc. The magnitude of this objective uncertainty is reflected in the language used by the authors to report…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Jamshid Sourati , Grace Shao
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