Information Visualization : Perception for Design

ISBN-13: 9780123814647 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 512 str.

Colin Ware

Opis

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.

• Complete update of the recognized source in industry, research, and academic for applicable guidance on information visualizing.
• Includes the latest research and state of the art information on multimedia presentation.
• More than 160 explicit design guidelines based on vision science.
• A new final chapter that explains the process of visual thinking and how visualizations help us to think about problems.
• Packed with over 400 informative full color illustrations, which are key to understanding of the subject.

Recenzje

"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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.