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Perceptual dependencies in information visualization assessed by complex visual search

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Roerdink, Jos B. T. M. Cornelissen, Frans W. Berg, Ronald Van den
Copyright Year	2008
Abstract	A common approach for visualizing data sets is to map them to images in which distinct data dimensions are mapped to distinct visual features, such as color, size and orientation. Here, we consider visualizations in which different data dimensions should receive equal weight and attention. Many of the end-user tasks performed on these images involve a form of visual search. Often, it is simply assumed that features can be judged independently of each other in such tasks. However, there is evidence for perceptual dependencies when simultaneously presenting multiple features. Such dependencies could potentially affect information visualizations that contain combinations of features for encoding information and, thereby, bias subjects into unequally weighting the relevance of different data dimensions. We experimentally assess (1) the presence of judgment dependencies in a visualization task (searching for a target node in a node-link diagram) and (2) how feature contrast relates to salience. From a visualization point of view, our most relevant findings are that (a) to equalize saliency (and thus bottom-up weighting) of size and color, color contrasts have to become very low. Moreover, orientation is less suitable for representing information that consists of a large range of data values, because it does not show a clear relationship between contrast and salience; (b) color and size are features that can be used independently to represent information, at least as far as the range of colors that were used in our study are concerned; (c) the concept of (static) feature salience hierarchies is wrong; how salient a feature is compared to another is not fixed, but a function of feature contrasts; (d) final decisions appear to be as good an indicator of perceptual performance as indicators based on measures obtained from individual fixations. Eye tracking, therefore, does not necessarily present a benefit for user studies that aim at evaluating performance in search tasks.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	21
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15443558
e-ISSN	15443965
DOI	10.1145/1278760.1278763
Volume Number	4
Issue Number	4
Journal	ACM Transactions on Applied Perception (TAP)
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2008-02-11
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Color Feature hierarchy Feature interaction Human vision Information visualization Node-link diagrams Orientation Perceptual dependencies Psychophysics Visual features Visual search
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Theoretical Computer Science Computer Science

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