Network Visualization Literacy: Task, Context, and Layout

Fall 2010 to Spring 2018

My dissertation research on network visualization literacy included an opinion survey to identify prominent issues in network visualization comprehension and a large-scale user study of the comprehension of network visualizations.

Responsibilities:

Surveyed 51 network science researchers to identify target visualization features
Created a series of visualizations with systematic manipulations in numerical and graphical properties
Constructed a series of quantitative network visualization analysis tasks
Recruited hundreds of subjects to complete online test of network visualization comprehension
Developed R scripts to process sample network datasets, conduct network statistics and clustering algorithms, generate test visualizations, process participant response data, apply mixed effects models, and visualize results

Project Outputs:

Theses/Dissertations

Zoss, Angela M. (2018). Network Visualization Literacy: Task, Context, and Layout (Doctoral dissertation). Supervised by Dr. Katy Börner. School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University: Bloomington, IN.

Book Chapters

Zoss, Angela M., Maltese, Adam, Uzzo, Stephen Miles and Börner, Katy. (2018). Network Visualization Literacy: Novel Approaches to Measurement and Instruction. In Cramer, Catherine, Porter, Mason A., Sayama, Hiroki, Sheetz, Lori and Uzzo, Stephen Miles (Eds.), Network Science In Education (pp. 169-187). Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-77237-0_11

Presentations at Conferences, Professional Gatherings

Zoss, Angela M. (October 24, 2014). Text-based disease classification of medical literature. Presentation at the Duke Visualization Friday Forum, Durham, NC.
Zoss, Angela M. (November 1, 2017). Network Visualization Literacy. Presentation at Indiana University Network Science Institute Open Science Forum, Bloomington, IN.