A Survey of Perception-Based Visualization Studies by Task

Knowledge of human perception has long been incorporated into visualizations to enhance their quality and effectiveness. The last decade, in particular, has shown an increase in perception-based visualization research studies. With all of this recent progress, the visualization community lacks a com...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics Vol. 28; no. 12; pp. 5026 - 5048
Main Authors: Quadri, Ghulam Jilani, Rosen, Paul
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: New York IEEE 01.12.2022
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:
Crowdsourcing
Data visualization
Effectiveness
Encoding
evaluation
graphical perception
Perception
survey
Task analysis
Taxonomy
Visual analytics
visual analytics tasks
Visualization
ISSN:1077-2626, 1941-0506, 1941-0506
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Summary:Knowledge of human perception has long been incorporated into visualizations to enhance their quality and effectiveness. The last decade, in particular, has shown an increase in perception-based visualization research studies. With all of this recent progress, the visualization community lacks a comprehensive guide to contextualize their results. In this report, we provide a systematic and comprehensive review of research studies on perception related to visualization. This survey reviews perception-focused visualization studies since 1980 and summarizes their research developments focusing on low-level tasks, further breaking techniques down by visual encoding and visualization type. In particular, we focus on how perception is used to evaluate the effectiveness of visualizations, to help readers understand and apply the principles of perception of their visualization designs through a task-optimized approach. We concluded our report with a summary of the weaknesses and open research questions in the area.
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ISSN:1077-2626
1941-0506
1941-0506
DOI:10.1109/TVCG.2021.3098240