Using information visualization to give rapid insight into information-intensive problems
Joanna Fivelsdal · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2005
Because most interesting tasks are too difficult to be dealt with purely mentally, information visualization can aid in the completion of useful tasks, thus increasing user efficiency, by providing a way for the computer to act as a co-participant in such tasks. It accomplishes this by allowing mental operations to rapidly access large amounts of data outside the mind.