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Does a Picture Paint a Thousand Words? Using Visual and Textual Channels to Understand Attitudes and Beliefs

Shiyao Li, Roshini Deva, Arpit Narechania, Alireza Karduni, Cindy Xiong Bearfield, Emily Wall

ACM CHI · 2026

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Abstract

Eliciting user attitudes and beliefs is crucial for understanding user interactions with technology. Through a qualitative study of US-based participants (N=41), we captured how people mentally represent their attitudes and beliefs through free-form drawings and complementary textual descriptions.

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@inproceedings{li2026elicitationstudy,
  author = {Li, Shiyao and Deva, Roshini and Narechania, Arpit and Karduni, Alireza and Xiong Bearfield, Cindy and Wall, Emily},
  title = {{Does a Picture Paint a Thousand Words? Using Visual and Textual Channels to Understand Attitudes and Beliefs}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {ACM},
  pages = {1--17},
  doi = {10.1145/3772318.3791303}
}