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Information Visualization: Perception for Design is a comprehensive guide to what the science of human perception tells us about how we should display information. The human brain is a super-computer for finding patterns in information. Our understanding of visual data and visual information is grea...
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Morgan Kaufmann,
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| Publisher Address: | Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | 2012. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 3rd [ed.]. |
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Interactive technologies
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123814647 |
| Summary: |
Information Visualization: Perception for Design is a comprehensive guide to what the science of human perception tells us about how we should display information. The human brain is a super-computer for finding patterns in information. Our understanding of visual data and visual information is greatly enhanced or impeded by the way information is presented. It is essential that visual data be designed in such a way that key information and important patterns will stand out. It is only by understanding how perception works that the best visualizations can be created. Colin Ware outlines the "This is a book about what the science of perception can tell us about visualization. There is a gold mine of information about how we see to be found in more than a century of work by vision researchers. The purpose of this book is to extract from that large body of research literature those design principles that apply to displaying information effectively"-- |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (512 pages) : color illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780123814647 0123814642 9780123814654 0123814650 |
| Index Number: | BF241 |
| CLC: | B842.2 |
| Contents: | Chapter 1. Foundations for an Applied Science of Data Visualization Chapter 2. The Environment, Optics, Resolution, and the Display Chapter 3. Lightness, Brightness, Contrast and Constancy Chapter 4. Color Chapter 5. Visual Salience and Finding Information Chapter 6. Static and Moving Patterns Chapter 7. Space Perception Chapter 8. Visual Objects and Data Objects Chapter 9. Images, Narrative, and Gestures for Explanation Chapter 10. Interacting with Visualizations Chapter 11. Visual Thinking Processes. |