Information visualization : perception for design

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ware, Colin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Waltham, Massachusetts : Elsevier , c2013
Edition:3rd ed
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Foundations for an applied science of data visualization
  • 2. The environment, optics, resolution, and the display
  • 3. Lightness, brightness, contrast, and constancy
  • 4. Color
  • 5. Visual salience and finding information
  • 6. Static and moving patterns
  • 7. Space perception
  • 8. Visual objects and data objects
  • 9. Images, narrative, and gestures for explanation
  • 10. Interacting with visualizations
  • 11. Visual thinking processes