{
  "id": 17906,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06845v1",
  "title": "Not Always Top-Left: Untangling the Signals that Guide Dashboard Reading Order",
  "summary": "Dashboards are widely used interfaces for data analysis, combining multiple visualizations, text, and interactive controls within a single view. While dashboard authors often structure layouts to suggest a logical consumption flow, users may interpret and navigate dashboards differently depending on the interplay between design features, analytical goals, and personal preferences. In this work, we investigate how people make sense of dashboards by examining their reading orders, i.e., the sequen",
  "authors": "Nicole Sultanum, Vidya Setlur",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-07T06:07:44.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-10T05:10:00.488Z",
  "source_slug": "x-arxiv-cs-hc",
  "source_name": "arXiv cs.HC",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org/list/cs.HC/recent",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17906",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06845v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}