TY - GEN
T1 - Perception of meta-information representation
T2 - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 56th Annual Meeting, HFES 2012
AU - Fortenbery, Nicholas
AU - Jenkins, Michael P.
AU - Bisantz, Ann M.
AU - D'Arcy, Jean François
AU - Farry, Michael
AU - Nagy, Allen
AU - Roth, Emilie
AU - Pfautz, Jonathan
AU - Thomas, Gina
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Previous research has identified many effective methods to visualize different types of meta-information, or information qualifiers; however, these methods are often incorporated without understanding how the graphical codes are perceived and how the encoded information is interpreted by display users. This results in display designers selecting graphical codes to represent meta-information without empirical evidence to determine the appropriateness of these selections. To help address this lack of guidance, this paper presents a systematic study of how people perceive two graphical codes (saturation and opacity) and relate those codes to different types of meta-information. Results were generated using psychophysical scaling methods, and provide visualization designers with a means to more appropriately design meta-information representations.
AB - Previous research has identified many effective methods to visualize different types of meta-information, or information qualifiers; however, these methods are often incorporated without understanding how the graphical codes are perceived and how the encoded information is interpreted by display users. This results in display designers selecting graphical codes to represent meta-information without empirical evidence to determine the appropriateness of these selections. To help address this lack of guidance, this paper presents a systematic study of how people perceive two graphical codes (saturation and opacity) and relate those codes to different types of meta-information. Results were generated using psychophysical scaling methods, and provide visualization designers with a means to more appropriately design meta-information representations.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84873416462
U2 - 10.1177/1071181312561053
DO - 10.1177/1071181312561053
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84873416462
SN - 9780945289418
T3 - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
SP - 218
EP - 222
BT - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 56th Annual Meeting, HFES 2012
Y2 - 22 October 2012 through 26 October 2012
ER -