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    Area of Science:

    • Cognitive Psychology
    • Data Visualization
    • Human-Computer Interaction

    Background:

    • Graphs are commonly used to represent data, with their placement often determined by aesthetics.
    • Conventional depictions associate left with lower values and right with higher values.
    • The spatial positioning of graphs may influence the interpretation of visual trends.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate if graph placement influences the perception of positive and negative slopes.
    • To determine if specific quadrants of a visual display affect the detection of slopes.

    Main Methods:

    • A visual search task was employed using displays with four bar graphs or scatterplots, each in a different quadrant.
    • Participants' detection times for slopes were measured based on graph position.

    Main Results:

    • Detection of negative slopes was significantly slowed in the upper-right quadrant for both bar graphs and scatterplots.
    • Detection of positive slopes was significantly slowed in the upper-left quadrant, specifically for bar graphs.
    • These findings indicate spatial incompatibilities between graph position and slope perception.

    Conclusions:

    • Graph placement can interfere with the accurate perception of linear trends.
    • The upper-right quadrant is incompatible with perceiving negative slopes, and the upper-left with positive slopes (bar graphs).
    • Results have practical implications for optimizing graph layout in presentations and publications for clearer data interpretation.