TY - JOUR
T1 - Visualization of Uncertainty Aids Spatial Judgments but Fails to Improve Metacognitive Efficiency
AU - Burton, Olivia
AU - Pomeroy, Diane
AU - McCarley, Jason
PY - 2017/10/20
Y1 - 2017/10/20
N2 - Uncertainty is an element of many decision-making tasks and inherently compromises performance. Research has found only equivocal evidence that uncertainty representations-displays that explicitly denote data quality-offset the performance costs of uncertainty. As yet, though, no work has examined the potential benefits of uncertainty displays to metacognition, display readers' ability to assess the quality of their own decision-making processes. The current study examined the benefits of uncertainty visualization to first-order (Type 1) and metacognitive (Type 2) sensitivity in a spatial judgment task. Data revealed only small improvements in Type 1 and Type 2 sensitivity with visualized uncertainty displays, and gave no evidence of disproportionate gains to metacognition. Crown
AB - Uncertainty is an element of many decision-making tasks and inherently compromises performance. Research has found only equivocal evidence that uncertainty representations-displays that explicitly denote data quality-offset the performance costs of uncertainty. As yet, though, no work has examined the potential benefits of uncertainty displays to metacognition, display readers' ability to assess the quality of their own decision-making processes. The current study examined the benefits of uncertainty visualization to first-order (Type 1) and metacognitive (Type 2) sensitivity in a spatial judgment task. Data revealed only small improvements in Type 1 and Type 2 sensitivity with visualized uncertainty displays, and gave no evidence of disproportionate gains to metacognition. Crown
KW - Uncertainty
KW - Decision-making processes
KW - Visualization
KW - Metacognition
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85042517608&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1541931213601831
DO - 10.1177/1541931213601831
M3 - Conference article
VL - 61
SP - 1390
EP - 1393
JO - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
JF - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
SN - 1071-1813
IS - 1
ER -