Bridging the Gap Translating Perception and Cognition Expertise with Visualization Research and Practice
Panel at IEEE VIS 2014 - 2014
In principle, perceptual and cognitive science form an
important foundation for visualization and visual analytics.
However, while some basic principles (e.g. color contrast, pre-attentive popout) have had significant impact on visualization
practice, the application of the sciences of perception and
cognition has been slow. A simplistic view might expect that
the visualization community should be able to mine the extensive literature of perceptual and cognitive science for ideas
to influence and improve our work. In practice, such direct
translation seems rare. There are many potential causes of this.
For example, there may be differences in goals (understanding
people vs. making visualizations), differences in methodology
(reductionist empiricism vs. wanting realistic applications), etc.
In this panel, we explore why the translation of
perceptual and cognitive science into visualization research
and practice is so challenging.
BibTex references
@inproceedings{BBFGRW14, author = {Bonneau, Georges-Pierre and Borgo, Rita and Fisher, Brian and Gleicher, Michael and Ropinski, Timo and Ware, Colin}, title = {{Bridging the Gap Translating Perception and Cognition Expertise with Visualization Research and Practice}}, booktitle = {Panel at IEEE VIS 2014}, year = {2014} }