Linear Diagram Design Study Part B

The work described here is part of a larger study on the design of linear diagrams.

Design Study Part B. How should we treat linear diagrams with colour: assign black to each set, assign a unique colour to each set, or assign a unique colour to each set intersection (i.e. overlap)?

Here the questions are presented in the random order, as they would appear to the participants. The pages below echo the results, in the study, these answers were sent to Mechanical Turk in a url query string.

Diagrams and Questions:

Page in Test Question Id Monochrome Diagram Colour by Sets Diagram Colour by Overlap Diagram Asked Question. For the training questions, this also includes the training text Options - presented in the form of tick boxes Correct Answer
Page 2 Training 1 Mono:


Set:


Overlap:
 ,None of the above Technology
Page 3 Training 2 Mono:


Set:


Overlap:
 ,None of the above Food,Games,Programming,Relaxation
Page 4 Training 3 Mono:


Set:


Overlap:
 ,None of the above Economics,Games,HiFi,Music
Page 5 Training 4 Mono:


Set:


Overlap:
 ,None of the above Books,Economics,Health,Journalism,Media,Programming,Stars
Page 6 Question 1 ,None of the above iPhone
Page 7 Question 2 ,None of the above Programming
Page 8 Inattentive 1 ,None of the above click on region
Page 9 Question 3 ,None of the above Design, Economics, Web
Page 10 Question 4 ,None of the above Bands, Cars, Journalism, Music, News, Stars
Page 11 Question 5 ,None of the above None of the above
Page 12 Question 6 ,None of the above Android, Hifi, iPhone, Journalism, Music, Relaxation
Page 13 Question 7 ,None of the above Books, Internet, Music, Web
Page 14 Inattentive 2 ,None of the above click on region
Page 15 Question 8 ,None of the above Books
Page 16 Question 9 ,None of the above College, Internet, Music, Web
Page 17 Question 10 ,None of the above Android, Economics, iPhone, Media, Relaxation
Page 18 Question 11 ,None of the above Bands
Page 19 Question 12 ,None of the above Computers, Economics, Hifi, News, Technology

The visualizations were generated from source data derived from SNAP Twitter ego networks. The files listed here are from this .gz file: http://snap.stanford.edu/data/twitter.tar.gz.

Question Data Source
1 74651704.circles
2 204145356.circles
3 629863.circles
4 14199378.circles
5 18957524.circles
6 163629705.circles
7 64508047.circles
8 87114066.circles
9 34416153.circles
10 134943586.circles
11 28490110.circles
12 7682452.circles

Anonymised study results in csv format. The time column records the time spent on the question page in seconds. The fraction correct column gives the proportion of buttons in their correct state (selected or not selected). The data here is from the participants who answered both attention testing questions correctly.

Investigators:
Peter Rodgers, University of Kent
Gem Stapleton, University of Brighton
Peter Chapman, University of Brighton