Personality as a predictor of user strategy: How locus of control affects search strategies on tree visualizations

Alvitta Ottley; Huahai Yang; Remco Chang

doi:10.1145/2702123.2702590

Personality as a predictor of user strategy: How locus of control affects search strategies on tree visualizations

Alvitta Ottley
, Huahai Yang
, Remco Chang

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

39 Scopus citations

Abstract

Individual differences matter. While this has been the theme for many recent works in the Visualization and HCI communities, the mystery of how to develop personalized visualizations remains. This is largely because very little is known about how users actually use visualizations to solve problems and even less is known about how individual differences affect these problem-solving strategies. In this paper, we provide evidence that strategies are indeed influenced by individual differences. We demonstrate how the personality trait locus of control impacts strategies on hierarchical visualizations, and we introduce design recommendations for personalized visualizations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Crossings
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	3251-3254
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450331456
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702590
State	Published - Apr 18 2015
Event	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: Apr 18 2015 → Apr 23 2015

Publication series

Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume	2015-April

Conference

Conference	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	04/18/15 → 04/23/15

Keywords

Individual differences
Locus of control
Personality
Strategy
Visualization

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Ottley, A., Yang, H., & Chang, R. (2015). Personality as a predictor of user strategy: How locus of control affects search strategies on tree visualizations. In CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings (pp. 3251-3254). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2015-April). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702590

Ottley, Alvitta ; Yang, Huahai ; Chang, Remco. / Personality as a predictor of user strategy : How locus of control affects search strategies on tree visualizations. CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. pp. 3251-3254 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Ottley, A, Yang, H & Chang, R 2015, Personality as a predictor of user strategy: How locus of control affects search strategies on tree visualizations. in CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, vol. 2015-April, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 3251-3254, 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2015, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 04/18/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702590

Personality as a predictor of user strategy: How locus of control affects search strategies on tree visualizations. / Ottley, Alvitta; Yang, Huahai; Chang, Remco.
CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 3251-3254 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2015-April).

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Ottley A, Yang H, Chang R. Personality as a predictor of user strategy: How locus of control affects search strategies on tree visualizations. In CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings. Association for Computing Machinery. 2015. p. 3251-3254. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/2702123.2702590

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