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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| Language: | English |
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Waltham, Massachusetts :
Elsevier ,
c2013
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| 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