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We introduce the concept of a meta design study as a structured approach to extract information from design study papers for the development of generalized tools in specific problem areas or domains. We explore the potential of meta design studies for creating domain-oriented visualization recommendation (VisRec) strategies. To demonstrate this concept, we present RSVP, a system derived from a meta design study conducted on Visual Parameter Space Analysis (VPSA). We outline the individual steps of the meta design study, highlight key concepts of the resulting VisRec strategy, and present a non-obtrusive implementation of this approach in RSVP. 

We investigate the ability of individuals to visually validate statistical models in terms of their fit to the data. While visual model estimation has been studied extensively, visual model validation remains under-investigated. It is unknown how well people are able to visually validate models, and how their performance compares to visual and computational estimation. As a starting point, we conducted a study across two populations (crowdsourced and volunteers). Participants had to both visually estimate (i.e, draw) and visually validate (i.e., accept or reject) the frequently studied model of averages. Across both populations, the level of accuracy of the models that were considered valid was lower than the accuracy of the estimated models. We find that participants' validation and estimation were unbiased. Moreover, their natural critical point between accepting and rejecting a given mean value is close to the boundary of its 95\% confidence interval, indicating that the visually perceived confidence interval corresponds to a common statistical standard. Our work contributes to the understanding of visual model validation and opens new research opportunities.