Paper Info
Title
Text, Table and Graph -- Which is Faster and More Accurate to Understand?
Abstract
Today's school and college textbooks are full of static, multimodal content. This research investigates which of the three modalities--text, table or graph--is more efficient in conveying a given message to students. For fixed content, we hypothesized that graph representation is better of the three for comprehension. Experiment results (N=25)suggest that graphs are indeed 25.5% faster to understand than text and 46.5% faster than tables. In terms of accuracy of responses, graphs were 13.5% worse than text and 8.6%more accurate than tables. When the ratio of amount of accurate answers for each second taken to respond was checked, graphs were faster as they enabled downloading of5.7% of the answer in one second time, whereas text downloaded only 3.6% and table only 3.9%. For our experimental data, it appears that graph mode might be faster but less accurate. However, when it comes to amount of correct comprehension, graph mode does come out better.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/T4E.2012.18
T4E
Keywords
Field
DocType
graph representation,fixed content,correct comprehension,college textbook,experiment result,graph mode,multimodal content,accurate answer,experimental data,modes,visualization,graph theory,accuracy,table,graph,text analysis,comprehension
Graph theory,Graph,Text mining,Computer science,Visualization,Upload,Theoretical computer science,Software,Graph (abstract data type),Comprehension
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.39
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gollapudi Vrj Sai Prasad1113.75
Amitash Ojha2185.60