Change blindness occurs when people do not notice changes in visible elements of a scene. In using an information visualization system to compare document collection subsets partitioned by their time-stamps, change blindness makes it impossible for users to recognize even very major changes, let alone minor ones. We describe theories from cognitive science that account for the change blindness phenomenon, as well as solutions developed for two visual analysis tools, the SPIRE Galaxies visualization and the SPIRE ThemeView?.
Revised: March 24, 2010 |
Published: August 20, 2001
Citation
Nowell L.T., E.G. Hetzler, and T.E. Tanasse. 2001.Change Blindness in Information Visualization: a Case Study. In 7th IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (INFOVIS 2001). Los Alamitos, California:IEEE Computer Society.PNNL-SA-34673.