Information visualization
Subtitle: perception for design
By: Colin Ware
Edition: 3rd [edition].
Series: Interactive technologies
Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780123814647
Subjects: Visualization; Information visualization; Visual perception
Description: "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 principles that apply to displaying information effectively"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 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. Color Chapter 5. Visual Salience and Finding Information Chapter 6. Static and Moving Patterns Chapter 7. Space Perception Chapter 8. Visual Objects and Data Objects Chapter 9. Images, Narrative, and Gestures for Explanation Chapter 10. Interacting with Visualizations Chapter 11. Visual Thinking Processes.