Design guidelines for narrative maps in sensemaking tasks

Narrative sensemaking is a fundamental process to understand sequential information. maps are visual representation framework that can aid analysts in their narrative process. allow the big picture of narrative, uncover new relationships between events, and model connection storylines. We seek how create use order obtain design guidelines for an interactive visualization tool sensemaking. perform two experiments with data set news articles. The insights extracted from our studies be used maps, extraction algorithms, analytics tools support contributions this paper three-fold: (1) analysis construct maps; (2) user evaluation specific map features; (3) maps. Our findings suggest ways designing as well providing toward useful interactions. discuss these reflect on potential challenges involved. As key highlights, we find should avoid redundant connections inferred by using transitive property event connections, reducing overall complexity map. Moreover, multiple types cognitive events such topical causal emulates strategies