Empirical testing of bends in workflow diagrams by eyetracking method
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15310%2F17%3A73581009" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15310/17:73581009 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-57141-6_17" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-57141-6_17</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57141-6_17" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-319-57141-6_17</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Empirical testing of bends in workflow diagrams by eyetracking method
Original language description
Workflow diagrams consist of nodes and connectors to express the steps of processing in the form of a visual program. The graphical vocabulary and the layout of the diagram have an influence on the user cognition of diagram. The aesthetic aspects also have an impact on users understanding. One aesthetic recommendation – “minimize beds in edge” was tested in workflow diagrams from ArcGIS ModelBuilder. Eye-tracking measuring in the laboratory was prepared for objective empirical testing. Five couples of diagrams with and without orthogonally bends were showed to 26 respondents. The user executed specific tasks above diagrams. Eye-tracking measuring brought interesting ob-jective results. Eye-tracking metrics affirm that diagrams with orthogonal bends on connector lines have an average higher number of fixations, longer length of scanpath, shorter average time of fixation and longer duration time. The result is that the using of straight lines brings effective cognition of workflow diagrams in case of spatial data processing in geographic information system (GIS).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.20.0170" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0170: Building of Research Team in the Field of Environmental Modeling and the Use of Geoinformation Systems with the Consequence in Participation in International Networks and Programs</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Software Engineering Trends and Techniques in Intelligent Systems
ISBN
978-3-319-57140-9
Number of pages of the result
10
Pages from-to
158-167
Number of pages of the book
498
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
000405338500017