Jake M Hofman

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Investigating Perceptual Biases in Icon Arrays

Icon arrays are graphical displays in which a subset of identical shapes are filled to convey probabilities. They are widely used for communicating probabilities to the general public. A primary design decision concerning icon arrays is how to fill and arrange these shapes. For example, a designer could fill the shape…

CHI '222nd AuthorData Storytelling +1

Round Numbers Can Sharpen Cognition

Scientists and journalists strive to report numbers with high precision to keep readers well-informed. Our work investigates whether this practice can backfire due to the cognitive costs of processing multi-digit precise numbers. In a pre-registered randomized experiment, we presented readers with several news stories…

CHI '222nd AuthorData Storytelling +1

Putting scientific results in perspective: Improving the communication of standardized effect sizes

How do people form impressions of effect size when reading scientific results? We present a series of studies on how people perceive treatment effectiveness when scientific results are summarized in various ways. We first show that a prevalent form of summarizing results---presenting mean differences between conditi…

CHI '213rd AuthorInteractive Data Visualization +1

Datamations: Animated Explanations of Data Analysis Pipelines

Plots and tables are commonplace in today's data-driven world, and much research has been done on how to make these figures easy to read and understand. Often times, however, the information they contain conveys only the end result of a complex and subtle data analysis pipeline. This can leave the reader struggling to…

CHI '213rd AuthorExplainable AI (XAI) +1

Manipulating and Measuring Model Interpretability

With machine learning models being increasingly used to aid decision making even in high-stakes domains, there has been a growing interest in developing interpretable models. Although many supposedly interpretable models have been proposed, there have been relatively few experimental studies investigating whether thes…

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