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Storytelling is shown as an effective approach to humanize information perception. However, its potential to build a biased view of the information contents is often neglected. Moreover, narrative understanding and emotion may interfere with data visualization comprehension. In this research, we evaluated how users perceived the information in two different configurations: One with a report with graphs and narrative side notes texts, and the second with a redesigned fully annotated content. The test compared the two groups in both qualitative and quantitative methods. The quantitative results were obtained by a survey and statistically analyzed with a T-Test. This indicated that the condescending storytelling approach augmented the perception of the effect signaled by the presented narrative. Also, the qualitative results collected afterward by interview and focus group have shown that, as the readers of narrative models perceived a higher intensity of the effect, they have also expected an even higher result from the selected data. The final analysis of the experiment helped to indicate that ordering, highlights, and semantics have a strong role in how the narrative influences the perception of the reader. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The contemporary world is characterized by a large volume of produced information. However, selecting and reading this information through research reports or news is still a challenge. Among the present obstacles stand out the information bias, originated by treatments of journalists or researchers, or even intentionally provoked to subvert the representation of reality from the obtained data. Thus, the present study aims to discuss the interpretation of visual information in graphical representations of statistical calculations in order to contextualize some of the main visual bias features of research. To this end, it addresses the main modes of search bias from statistical representations and data visualization and identifies some steps in which bias translates into visual information. From the study, it is suggested that the visual understanding of data visualization resources may at least instigate the reader's question about the possible bias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this document is to present an approach of understanding of the design process from the framework of cognitive psychology. It is anchored in models of cognitive architecture and problem-solving approaches in order to suggest a metacognition practice for the designers. Is presented an approach of design as a process of problem solving, including common heuristics, their analysis and synthesis nature and contributions from Cognitive Psychology in metacognition processes, creativity and evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]