Found me a giant for the visualization part… One question that pops up is ‘so what’s handy when dealing with complex situations’, and at the same time taking cooperation with(in) vs competition between groups/individuals into account?
Eppler: “Not only the productivity of teams using visualisations software was significantly higher, but also the quality of their work was higher… {although they do not perceive the difference (source, 5.1 Findings)}. Even more so, on an individual basis, the recall and knowledge gains that we tested were much higher in the visualization supported software groups than in the flip chart groups”.
A guide to usability dimensions (which visualization to use when …)
