Abstract:Although the underlying mechanism is not well understood, there is considerable evidence that the constellation of cognitive factors known as 'spatial aptitude' influences users' performance in information spaces. Evidence of the effect in the computer science literature is contradictory: some studies show that techniques, which support users with lower aptitude, retard performance by those with higher aptitude. We have investigated the effect of the visualization subfactor in a real-world navigation task usin… Show more
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