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INFORMATION VISUALIZATION
Information Visualization
Perception for Design
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Second Edition

By
Colin Ware, Data Visualization Research Lab, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA

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Interactive Technologies,

Description
Most designers know that yellow text presented against a blue background reads clearly and easily, but how many can explain why, and what really are the best ways to help others and ourselves clearly see key patterns in a bunch of data? This book explores the art and science of why we see objects the way we do. Based on the science of perception and vision, the author presents the key principles at work for a wide range of applications--resulting in visualization of improved clarity, utility, and persuasiveness. The book offers practical guidelines that can be applied by anyone: interaction designers, graphic designers of all kinds (including web designers), data miners, and financial analysts.

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

Contents
Figure Credits Foreword Preface Preface to the First Edition Chapter 1: Foundation for a 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 attention and information that Pops Out Chapter 6: Static and Moving Patterns Chapter 7: Visual Objects and Data Objects Chapter 8: Space Perception and the Display of Data in Space Chapter 9: Images, Words, and Gestures Chapter 10: Interacting with Visualizations Chapter 11: Thinking with Visualization Appendix A: Changing Primaries Appendix B: CIE Color Measurement System Appendix C: The Perceptual Evaluation of Visualization Techniques and Systems Bibliography Subject Index Author Index About the Author

Bibliographic details
Hardbound, 486 pages, publication date: APR-2004
ISBN-13: 978-1-55860-819-1
ISBN-10: 1-55860-819-2
Imprint: MORGAN KAUFFMAN

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