AbstractChange blindness occurs when people do not notice changes in visible elements of a scene. If people use an infor-mation visualization system to compare document collec-tion subsets partitioned by their time-stamps, change blind-ness makes it impossible for them 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 de-veloped for two visual analysis tools, a dot plot (SPIRE Galaxies) and landscape (ThemeView?) visualizations.
Revised: May 12, 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 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, INFOVIS 2001, 15-22. Piscataway, New Jersey:IEEE.PNNL-SA-35126.