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Asking Better Questions: How Presentation Formats Influence Information Search
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Wu, Charley M.; Meder, Björn; Filimon, Flavia; Nelson, Jonathan D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
While the influence of presentation formats have been widely studied in Bayesian reasoning tasks, we present the first systematic investigation of how presentation formats influence information search decisions. Four experiments were conducted across different probabilistic environments, where subjects (N = 2,858) chose between 2 possible search…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Information Seeking, Search Strategies, Search Engines
Thinking about the Weather: How Display Salience and Knowledge Affect Performance in a Graphic Inference Task
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Hegarty, Mary; Canham, Matt S.; Fabrikant, Sara I. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Three experiments examined how bottom-up and top-down processes interact when people view and make inferences from complex visual displays (weather maps). Bottom-up effects of display design were investigated by manipulating the relative visual salience of task-relevant and task-irrelevant information across different maps. Top-down effects of…
Descriptors: Weather, Computer System Design, Eye Movements, Maps