Interacting with Statistics Report from a Workshop at CHI 99 Michael Levi and Frederick Conrad Overview Suppose you are moving to a new city. You might reasonably want to know if you should worry about crime. Or whether the local schools are good. Whether the drinking water is clean. And whether the job prospects are encouraging. In each of these cases the relevant information exists in one or more statistical data bases (SDBs). Whether a typical information seeker can find the information, however, is another question. Information seekers are granted access to the content of statistical databases through user interfaces, which act as gatekeepers. The quality of the interface - its suitability for a particular user population performing a particular set of tasks - is the prime determinant of successful accessibility. The importance of usability engineering to SDBs has been brought into sharper focus since the World Wide Web has become a popular medium for disseminating statistics. The usability issues are essentially the same, however, whether access to statistical data takes place over the Internet, over a LAN, or from a CD drive on the user's desktop. The authors organized a workshop at the CHI 99 Conference on
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Interacting with statistics — report from a workshop at CHI 99
Levi, Michael; Conrad, Frederick
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, Volume 31 (4)
Association for Computing Machinery – Oct 1, 1999
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