Priming Locus of Control to Affect Performance.
Chang, Remco.
Ottley, Alvitta.
Crouser, R. Jordan.
Ziemkiewicz, Caroline.
2012.
- Recent research suggests that the personality trait Locus of Control (LOC) can be a reliable predictor of performance when learning a new visualization tool. While these results are compelling and have direct implications to visualization design, the relationship between a user's LOC measure and their performance is not well understood. We hypothesize that there is a dependent relationship between ... read moreLOC and performance; specifically, a person's orientation on the LOC scale directly influences their performance when learning new visualizations. To test this hypothesis, we conduct an experiment with 300 subjects using Amazon's Mechanical Turk. We adapt techniques from personality psychology to manipulate a user's LOC so that users are either primed to be more internally or externally oriented on the LOC scale. Replicating previous studies investigating the effect of LOC on performance, we measure users' speed and accuracy as they use visualizations with varying visual metaphors. Our findings demonstrate that changing a user's LOC impacts their performance. We find that a change in users' LOC results in performance changes. © 2012 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.read less
- Ottley, Alvitta, R. Jordan Crouser, Caroline Ziemkiewicz, and Remco Chang. "Priming Locus of Control to Affect Performance." 2012 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) (October 2012). doi:10.1109/vast.2012.6400535.
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