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Interpreting Lines in Graphs: Do Graph Users Construe Fictive Motion?

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Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (Diagrams 2004)

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A pilot study was designed to investigate the plausibility of construing fictive motion from function lines in Cartesian graphs.Participants (n=18) were presented with a series of lines graphs and required to judge which of two lines of expressed the greatest rate of change in the value of Y.Some of the graphs had arrows pointing in a direction of the line that was either consistent (consistent condition) or inconsistent (inconsistent condition) with change progressing from the origin of the horizontal axis.Graphs in the neutral condition had no arrows.It was hypothesized that if users construe fictive motion when interpreting change of function lines then (a) inconsistent arrows should detrimentally interfere with the judgments and (b) consistent arrows should facilitate the judgments.Results were as predicted.Response times in inconsistent trials were slower than the neutral condition and for consistent trials response times were faster than the neutral condition.

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK

    Rossano Barone & Peter C. -H. Cheng

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  1. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, CB3 0FD, Cambridge, UK

    Alan F. Blackwell

  2. Clayton School of IT Monash University, 3800, Australia

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  3. Faculty of Culture and Information Science, Doshisha University, Japan

    Atsushi Shimojima

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Barone, R., Cheng, P.C.H. (2004). Interpreting Lines in Graphs: Do Graph Users Construe Fictive Motion?. In: Blackwell, A.F., Marriott, K., Shimojima, A. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2980. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25931-2_32

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