Abstract
Data from expert forecasters making weather reports (using the talk aloud method) were coded for dynamic comments as well as whether the visualization itself was static or dynamic. Preliminary results strongly suggest that meteorologists build dynamic mental models from static images.
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Bogacz, S., Trafton, J.G. (2002). Understanding Static and Dynamic Visualizations. In: Hegarty, M., Meyer, B., Narayanan, N.H. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2317. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46037-3_35
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