Information Visualization
Perception for Design
By- Colin Ware, Data Visualization Research Lab, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA
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 key principles for a wide range of applications and designs, providing designers with the tools to create visualizations of improved clarity, utility and persuasiveness. The book continues to be the key resource for practical design guidelines, based on perception, which can be applied by practitioners, students and researchers alike.
Audience
Professionals in user interface/user interaction designer; computer graphics, including those who are the techie type as well as those who are graphics designers; financial analysts; research scientists and engineers; data miners; and managers faced with information-intensive challenges
Hardbound, 536 Pages
Published: May 2012
Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN: 978-0-12-381464-7
Reviews
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"Oh my God, the Bible just got better. There is no book that I rely on more in my work than Information Visualization: Perception for Design, and with this third edition Colin Ware has made it more indispensible and easier to apply than ever."-- Stephen Few, Principal, Perceptual Edge"Drawing on his background in both computer science and the psychology of perception, Ware (coastal and ocean mapping, U. of New Hampshire) has become a leader in three-dimensional visualization systems, such as ocean currents and the movement of whales. For this third edition of his reference on what the science of perception reveals about visualization, he has clarified the design implications of research in perception, and increased the emphasis on the process of visual thinking. The topics include foundations for an applied science of data visualization, color, static and moving pictures, visual objects and data objects, and interacting with visualization."--Reference and Research Book News, August 2012, page 7
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. ColorChapter 5. Visual Salience and Finding Information
Chapter 6. Static and Moving PatternsChapter 7. Space Perception
Chapter 8. Visual Objects and Data ObjectsChapter 9. Images, Narrative, and Gestures for Explanation
Chapter 10. Interacting with VisualizationsChapter 11. Visual Thinking Processes
