Staff-Reported Sparkline Vividness and the Living Dashboard's Uptake Gap
An 11-month study pairing login telemetry for the University's Living Dashboard with a 214-staff survey of how vividly respondents could picture a trend from a sparkline, across nine departments. Weekly engagement rose with reported vividness (r = 0.68), and the lowest-vividness department logged 61% fewer sessions than the University median, a gap unexplained by seniority or prior training; the authors read the shortfall as a legibility failure of the instrument rather than a motivation gap, and propose trialling a text-summary companion alongside the sparkline.
| Authors | Petra Umbile, Osei Vandermeer |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research poster |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.qnkzbe |
| Pages | 1 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
Cite as
@misc{slop_qnkzbe,
author = {Petra Umbile and Osei Vandermeer},
title = {Same Chart, Different Picture: Staff-Reported Sparkline Vividness and the Living Dashboard's Uptake Gap},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.qnkzbe},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-whether-the-living-qnkzbe/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research poster},
}