Visualizations for increased curiosity: How use of the socio-economic index Business Index North can change internal representaions of the High North
Journal: Duo Research Archive (University of Oslo)
Year: 2019

There is no widely accepted theory on how users generate new knowledge and insights based on information visualization, and the purpose of this thesis is to better understand the relationship between information, visualizations, curiosity and internal (mental) representations in users and we take a closer look at how all these concepts interact in a context.This is a qualitative exploratory study, the context is the High North region and the information and the visualizations used to gather data