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Graphical Data Displays and Database Queries: Helping Users Select the Right Display for the Task

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This paper describes the process by which we have constructed an adaptive system for external representation (ER) selection support, designed to enhance users’ ER reasoning performance. We describe how our user model has been constructed – it is a Bayesian network with values seeded from data derived from experimental studies. The studies examined the effects of users’ background knowledge-of-external representations (KER) upon performance and their preferences for particular information display forms across a range of database query types.

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  1. Representation & Cognition Group, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QH, UK

    Beate Grawemeyer & Richard Cox

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  1. Media Informatics, University of Munich, Germany

    Andreas Butz

  2. Simon Fraser University at Surrey, 13450 102 Avenue, V3T 5X3, Surrey, BC, Canada

    Brian Fisher

  3. Institute for Geoinformatics, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Weselerstrasse 253, 48161, Münster, Germany

    Antonio Krüger

  4. School of Computing Science, Culture Lab, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Patrick Olivier

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Grawemeyer, B., Cox, R. (2005). Graphical Data Displays and Database Queries: Helping Users Select the Right Display for the Task. In: Butz, A., Fisher, B., Krüger, A., Olivier, P. (eds) Smart Graphics. SG 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3638. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11536482_5

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