TY - CONF TI - Sketchy Rendering to Aid the Recollection of Regular Visualizations AU - Larsen, Michael Reidun Engelbrecht AU - Han, Wenkai AU - Schulz, Hans-Jörg T2 - EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization A2 - Kerren, Andreas A2 - Garth, Christoph A2 - Marai, G. Elisabeta AB - Some visualizations have a more regular visual appearance than others. For example, while stream graphs or force-directed network layouts feature a unique, almost organic 'look and feel', matrices or unit treemaps can become rather bland, grid-like visualizations in which one data item is hard to tell apart from the next. In this paper, we investigate the use of sketchy rendering for such grid-like visualizations to give them a slightly more unique 'look and feel' themselves. We evaluate our approach in a lab study (N=16) where participants were asked to re-find a given grid cell in regular and sketchy grids. We find that users who make conscious use of the sketchy features can benefit from certain forms of sketchy rendering in terms of task completion times. C3 - Short Paper Proceedings of the EG/VGTC Conference on Visualization EuroVis 2020 DA - 2020/// PY - 2020 DO - 10.2312/evs.20201062 SP - 139 EP - 143 PB - Eurographics Association SN - 978-3-03868-106-9 ER -