Overview
Most designers know that yellow text presented against a blue background reads clearly and easily, but how many can explain why, and what really are the best ways to help others and ourselves clearly see key patterns in a bunch of data? This book explores the art and science of why we see objects the way we do. Based on the science of perception and vision, the author presents the key principles at work for a wide range of applications--resulting in visualization of improved clarity, utility, and persuasiveness. The book offers practical guidelines that can be applied by anyone: interaction designers, graphic designers of all kinds (including web designers), data miners, and financial analysts.
Full Product Details
Author: Colin Ware (Data Visualization Research Lab, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA)
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Imprint: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions:
Width: 19.10cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 1.288kg
ISBN: 9781558608191
ISBN 10: 1558608192
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 05 May 2004
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Replaced By: 9780123814647
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
Ware's updated review of empirical researcg and interface design examples will do much to accelerate innovation and adoption of information visualization. --Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland
This unique and essential guide to human visual perception and related cognitive principles will enrich courses on information visualization and empower designers to see their way forward. Ware's updated review of empirical research and interface design examples will do much to accelerate innovation and adoption of information visualization. -Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland Colin Ware is the perfect person to write this book, with a long history of prominent contributions to the visual interaction with machines and to information visualization directly. It goes a long way towards joining science to the practical design of information visualization systems. -from the foreword by Stuart Card, PARC Better than anyone else that I've encountered in my work, Colin Ware explains how visual perception works and how it applies to data presentation. - Stephen Few -- Intelligent Enterprise
Ware's updated review of empirical researcg and interface design examples will do much to accelerate innovation and adoption of information visualization. --Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland
Author Information
Colin Ware is the world’s leading authority on the perceptual principles underlying the effective design of information displays. He combines interests in both basic and applied visualization research and he has advanced degrees in both computer science (MMath, Waterloo) and in the psychology of perception (PhD,Toronto). He has published over 160 articles in scientific and technical journals and at leading conferences. Many of these articles relate to the use of color, texture, motion and 3D displays in information visualization. His approach is always to combine theory with practice and his publications range from rigorously scientific contributions to the Journal of Physiology and Vision Research to applications oriented articles in ACM Transactions on Graphics and ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. Fledermaus, the leading visualization software used in oceanography, originated in software developed by him and his graduate students.
