Information Visualization

Perception for Design
3rd revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-12-381464-7
Verlag: Elsevier LTD, Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 536 Seiten, Format (B × H): 199 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1222 g

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? When we use software, access a website, or view business or scientific graphics, our understanding is greatly enhanced or impeded by the way the information is presented.

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.

Zielgruppe

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ware, Colin

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion Informationsvisualisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Foundations for an Applied Science of Data Visualization2. The Environment, Optics, Resolution, and the Display3. Lightness, Brightness, Contrast and Constancy4. Color5. Visual Salience and Finding Information6. Static and Moving Patterns7. Space Perception8. Visual Objects and Data Objects9. Images, Narrative, and Gestures for Explanation10. Interacting with Visualizations11. Visual Thinking Processes

Über Autor(innen)

Ware, Colin
Colin Ware is the world's leading authority on the perceptual principles underlying the effective design of information displays. He combines interests in both basic and applied visualization research and he has advanced degrees in both computer science (MMath, Waterloo) and in the psychology of perception (PhD,Toronto). He has published over 160 articles in scientific and technical journals and at leading conferences. Many of these articles relate to the use of color, texture, motion and 3D displays in information visualization. His approach is always to combine theory with practice and his publications range from rigorously scientific contributions to the Journal of Physiology and Vision Research to applications oriented articles in ACM Transactions on Graphics and ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. Fledermaus, the leading visualization software used in oceanography, originated in software developed by him and his graduate students.