Tactile presentation of network data: text, matrix or diagram?

Yalong Yang; Kim Marriott; Matthew Butler; Cagatay Goncu; Leona Holloway

doi:10.1145/3313831.3376367

Tactile presentation of network data: text, matrix or diagram?

Yalong Yang, Kim Marriott, Matthew Butler, Cagatay Goncu, Leona Holloway

Department of Human Centred Computing

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Abstract

Visualisations are commonly used to understand social, biological and other kinds of networks. Currently we do not know how to effectively present network data to people who are blind or have low-vision (BLV). We ran a controlled study with 8 BLV participants comparing four tactile representations: organic node-link diagram, grid node-link diagram, adjacency matrix and braille list. We found that the node-link representations were preferred and more effective for path following and cluster identification while the matrix and list were better for adjacency tasks. This is broadly in line with findings for the corresponding visual representations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Joanna McGrenere, Andy Cockburn
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450367080
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376367
Publication status	Published - 21 Apr 2020
Event	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2020 - Honolulu , United States of America Duration: 25 Apr 2020 → 30 Apr 2020 Conference number: 38th https://chi2020.acm.org (Website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3313831 (Proceedings)

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2020
Abbreviated title	CHI 2020
Country/Territory	United States of America
City	Honolulu
Period	25/04/20 → 30/04/20
Internet address	https://chi2020.acm.org (Website) https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3313831 (Proceedings)

Keywords

accessibility
adjacency matrix
blindness
graphvisualization
vision impairment

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Yang, Y, Marriott, K , Butler, M, Goncu, C & Holloway, L 2020, Tactile presentation of network data: text, matrix or diagram? in J McGrenere & A Cockburn (eds), Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 240, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2020, Honolulu , Hawaii, United States of America, 25/04/20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376367

Tactile presentation of network data: text, matrix or diagram? / Yang, Yalong; Marriott, Kim ; Butler, Matthew et al.
Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Joanna McGrenere; Andy Cockburn. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020. 240.

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