Visualization-Mediated Alleviation of the Planning Fallacy

Pierre Dragicevic (1) , Yvonne Jansen (1)

1 AVIZ - Analysis and Visualization

The planning fallacy, i.e., people’s tendency to underestimate the time required to complete a project despite past failures, is ubiquitous and resistant to coping strategies. We propose scenarios where visualizations may help alleviate this problem, motivated by previous research in psychology. We hope that with the help of visualizations, people will become more reliable in their judgments and work together in a way that is both more productive and more gratifying.

Mots clés: Planning fallacy; debiasing; information visualization; personal information management; social networks.

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Pierre Dragicevic, Yvonne Jansen. Visualization-Mediated Alleviation of the Planning Fallacy. Geoffrey Ellis. IEEE VIS 2014, Nov 2014, Paris, France. DECISIVe : Workshop on Dealing with Cognitive Biases in Visualisations. ⟨hal-01500560⟩