The impact of social information on visual judgments

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1461-1470

  Hullman, Jessica ^a   Adar, Eytan ^a   Shah, Priti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Graphical perception; Information visualization; Mechanical turk; Social influence; Social proof

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; VISUALIZATION;

COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCES; GRAPHICAL PERCEPTIONS; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; MECHANICAL TURKS; SOCIAL INFLUENCE; SOCIAL INFORMATION; SOCIAL PROOF; SOCIAL SIGNALS; SOCIAL VISUALIZATION; VISUALIZATION SYSTEM;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 79958122715     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979157     Document Type: Conference Paper

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