Kilgour, Lauren and Mattern, Eleanor
(2015)
Distilling Jargon: A Case Study Examining the Efficacy of Government Information Visualizations.
In: iConference 2015, 24 March 2015 - 27 March 2015, Newport Beach, California.
Abstract
In 2010, the federal government passed the Plain Writing Act, a piece of legislation that calls for clearly and concisely written government information. While this statute focuses on textual communication, its passage illustrates the government’s broader concerns with improving the accessibility of all government information. The same principles should guide the creation of nontextual communications, including visualizations intended to illustrate and accompany government information. This poster applies a case study approach to consider how current visualization methods and techniques might be modified in the future to more equitably distill government jargon. The case study looks at the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and how this act is currently being visualized for lay audiences. We compare and contrast the text and visual versions of the ACA to examine what information is lost when concepts are transferred into visual format, as well to consider the efficacy of the visualization.
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2015 |
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iConference 2015 Proceedings |
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iConference 2015 |
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24 March 2015 - 27 March 2015 |
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Conference |
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University of Pittsburgh |
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School of Information Sciences > Library and Information Science |
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Yes |
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05 Feb 2016 15:16 |
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02 Sep 2019 14:59 |
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http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/26785 |
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