The Psychology of Visualization
Andrew Csinger · 1992
This document is a review of the literature of three related areas: psychophysical vision research, automatic display generation, and multi-dimensional data visualization. Common threads are explored, and a model of the visualization process is proposed which integrates aspects of these three areas. In the review of psychophysics, attempts to find a set of primitive perceptual channels are explored. In the literature on automatic generation and visualization, attempts to employ these psychophysical findings are investigated. Finally, the proposed model is a framework which might facilitate this kind of cooperation. Contents 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Motivation : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 1 1.2 Structure of this paper : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 1 2 Attention, Pre-attention, and the Ranking of Perceptual Tasks 2 2.1 Psychophysics : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 2 2.1...