Practical approaches to user-adaptive visualization in the pharmaceutical industry: age-related differences in graph comprehension

Abstract In business settings, where graphs are often used for decision-making, it is advisable to use graphs that are selected or designed considering the reader’s graph comprehension, which refers to the ability to accurately interpret graphical data within a short, fixed viewing time (on the order of tens of seconds). However, there is little knowledge on how to achieve this in practice. In this study, we conducted an experiment involving 93 pharmaceutical industry employees in Japan to ident