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You are being invited to participate in a study titled "Visualization in Motion". This study is conducted by Lijie Yao and Petra Isenberg from Inria (France), Anastasia Bezerianos from LISN (France), and Romain Vuillemot from LIRIS (France).

The purpose of this study is to understand the accurate perception of data in moving charts. This experiment has two sections:

  • a training section
  • an experiment section

Please take part in this study only in case that you do not have problem with moving images on screens and do not have motion sensitivity (vestibular disorder).

The minimum screen size for this study is 13"3-inches. Normally most laptops (except the small Chromebooks, the old small MacBooks, and someother small-screen laptop hybrids) and desktops meet this requirement, however, all smartphones and most tablets will not meet the requirement.

The whole experiment will take you 27 minutes to complete. Please close unnecessary pages and reminders for the following 27 minutes. You will be compensated 4.05 GBP as long as you pass the calibration phase, pass the attention test trials, and complete the study.

Your participation in this study is entirely voluntary and you can withdraw at any time.

Please take part in this experiment only one time, if you have already completed it once, please leave the experiment. We will not pay for the participants who reload the page after finishing the calibration tool, so please do not reload the page during the experiment.

We thank you for your interest in participating in this study.




Please click the button below to proceed to the informed consent:

Calibration

Before we begin with the experiment we have to learn a little more about your screen. On the next couple of pages we will therefore have to go through a calibration step.

  • Please make your browser window full screen and do not resize it anymore for the duration of the experiment.
  • Please avoid distractions during the experiment for the next 27 minutes.

We are sorry, but you cannot continue the experiment

According to the calibration tool's result, that your screen size is not big enough to do our experiment.

We indicated at the beginning of the experiment that the minimum screen size is 13"3, and if your screen size cannot reach the study request, as we wrote in our consent form, you won't get paid.

You can close the window now and return the task on the Prolific platform.

Thank you for your interest in our online study.

Pre-questionnaire

How experienced are you with reading bar charts like in the examples above?

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Not at all experienced      Very experienced

How often do you watch team sports on TV or play video games (eg. WoW, FIFA...)?

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Never      Everyday

Background Explanation

Soccer stadium image from TV

Imagine this scenario:
You are playing a video game where you control and move a character. The character starts out with full health but can lose health throughout the game. The character’s health state is displayed in a bar over its head. The red part indicates the character’s current health compared to how much health your character has already lost (in grey). We call this health indicator a bar chart.

  • The bar has two sections, the red represents the current health and the grey represents lost health. The whole bar represents 100 percent of possible health.
  • In the image on the left, your character is at 60% health and has lost 40% of its health (in grey).

Task Description

Here is an explanation of the types of questions you will have to answer in the study.

What you will see:
  • You will always see a bar chart composed of two sections, one section is in red, and the other section in grey. For simplicity, there will be no character and no labels.