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Design preferences and cognitive styles: experimentation by automated website synthesis
Siu-wai Leung1,2; John Lee1; Chris Johnson3; David Robertson1
2012
Source PublicationAutomated Experimentatio
ISSN1759-4499
Volume4
Abstract

Background

This article aims to demonstrate computational synthesis of Web-based experiments in undertaking experimentation on relationships among the participants' design preference, rationale, and cognitive test performance. The exemplified experiments were computationally synthesised, including the websites as materials, experiment protocols as methods, and cognitive tests as protocol modules. This work also exemplifies the use of a website synthesiser as an essential instrument enabling the participants to explore different possible designs, which were generated on the fly, before selection of preferred designs.

Methods

The participants were given interactive tree and table generators so that they could explore some different ways of presenting causality information in tables and trees as the visualisation formats. The participants gave their preference ratings for the available designs, as well as their rationale (criteria) for their design decisions. The participants were also asked to take four cognitive tests, which focus on the aspects of visualisation and analogy-making. The relationships among preference ratings, rationale, and the results of cognitive tests were analysed by conservative non-parametric statistics including Wilcoxon test, Krustal-Wallis test, and Kendall correlation.

Results

In the test, 41 of the total 64 participants preferred graphical (tree-form) to tabular presentation. Despite the popular preference for graphical presentation, the given tabular presentation was generally rated to be easier than graphical presentation to interpret, especially by those who were scored lower in the visualization and analogy-making tests.

Conclusions

This piece of evidence helps generate a hypothesis that design preferences are related to specific cognitive abilities. Without the use of computational synthesis, the experiment setup and scientific results would be impractical to obtain.

DOI10.1186/1759-4499-4-2
Language英語English
Scopus ID2-s2.0-84863317774
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CollectionInstitute of Chinese Medical Sciences
Affiliation1.School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK
2.Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
3.State Key Lab QRCM and ICMS, University of Macau, Taipa, Macao, China
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Siu-wai Leung,John Lee,Chris Johnson,et al. Design preferences and cognitive styles: experimentation by automated website synthesis[J]. Automated Experimentatio, 2012, 4.
APA Siu-wai Leung., John Lee., Chris Johnson., & David Robertson (2012). Design preferences and cognitive styles: experimentation by automated website synthesis. Automated Experimentatio, 4.
MLA Siu-wai Leung,et al."Design preferences and cognitive styles: experimentation by automated website synthesis".Automated Experimentatio 4(2012).
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