Interactive Data Visualization For Risk Assessment: Can There Be Too Much User Agency?

Keywords

Agency; Data visualization; Risk

Abstract

Audiences using interactive data visualizations can experience varying levels of agency as they employ these tools to select scenarios and explore data. While a high level of user agency is often framed in positive terms, this poster presentation argues that too much user agency may be detrimental in certain situations. It focuses on interactive visualizations that display risks associated with sea-level rise (SLR). In these tools, designer constraints on the range of SLR and strong authorial messaging can reduce user agency, but may better inform understanding and decision-making by users.

Publication Date

7-16-2015

Publication Title

SIGDOC 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference on the Design of Communication

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1145/2775441.2775446

Socpus ID

84961755734 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84961755734

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