Information visualization : perception for design / Colin Ware.

By: Ware, Colin
Series: Interactive technologiesPublisher: Waltham, MA : Morgan Kaufmann, [2013]Edition: Third editionDescription: xx, 512 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780123814647 (hardback)Subject(s): Visual perception | Visualization | Information visualizationDDC classification: 152.14 LOC classification: BF241 | .W34 2013
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [459]-496) and index.

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.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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