Vos, Daniël (2023) Reviewing current inclusive visualisation design practises within the field of psychology and investigating the efficiency of APA 7th edition compliant visualisations. Research Master thesis, Research Master.
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The recent release of the APA 7th edition includes a section about colour-use in scientific publications to make data visualisations inclusive for readers with a visual deficiency. The purpose of this study is twofold: (1) assess the state of the implementation of the new colour-use guidelines in a small sample of APA journals in 2020 – 2021, and (2) determine how the new colour-use guidelines affect non-visual deficient readers. The assessment of the data visualisations in the APA journals follows a systematic review approach, with a grading instrument based on the APA colour-use guidelines and their considered best-practice. The effectiveness of the inclusive data visualisation for non-visually deficient readers follows a survey-based experimental design in which participants received either an APA compliant or non-compliant data visualisation and are scored on their answer accuracy and self-perceived mental load. The results from the systematic review indicate that the implementation can be improved in both colour-use and application of redundant coding practices, and the results from the survey-based experimental design show no difference in efficiency between an APA compliant and non-compliant data visualisation. Which indicates that current data visualisation practices can be improved and there is no barrier for implementing more inclusive data visualisation practices.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Research Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Paap, M.C.S. and Albers, C.J. |
| Degree programme: | Research Master |
| Differentiation route: | Psychometrics and Statistics [Research Master] |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jun 2023 13:03 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jun 2023 13:03 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1986 |
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