The Backstory to “Swaying the Public”: A Design Chronicle of Election Forecast Visualizations
Fumeng Yang,
Mandi Cai,
Chloe Mortenson
et al.
Abstract:In 2023, we submitted an IEEE VIS paper entitled “Swaying the Public? Impacts of Election Forecast Visualizations on Emotion, Trust, and Intention in the 2022 U.S. Midterms”, which was later bestowed with the honor of a best paper award. Yet, studying such a complex phenomenon required us to explore many more design paths than we could count, and certainly more than we could document in a single paper. This paper, then, is the unwritten prequel—the backstory. It chronicles our journey from a simple idea—to stu… Show more
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