Attention and Visual Memory in Visualization and Computer Graphics

Healey, Christopher G.; Enns, James T.

doi:10.1109/tvcg.2011.127

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“…The design of the chart takes advantage of preattentive visual processing (Healey and Enns, 2012) to help users explore multiple levels of data in the same window. DNA elements are drawn as squares and have curved lines to indicate interactions with other proteins.…”

Section: Protein and Dna Interaction Viewermentioning

confidence: 99%

ePlant: Visualizing and Exploring Multiple Levels of Data for Hypothesis Generation in Plant Biology

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A big challenge in current systems biology research arises when different types of data must be accessed from separate sources and visualized using separate tools. The high cognitive load required to navigate such a workflow is detrimental to hypothesis generation. Accordingly, there is a need for a robust research platform that incorporates all data and provides integrated search, analysis, and visualization features through a single portal. Here, we present ePlant (http://bar.utoronto.ca/eplant), a visual analytic tool for exploring multiple levels of Arabidopsis thaliana data through a zoomable user interface. ePlant connects to several publicly available web services to download genome, proteome, interactome, transcriptome, and 3D molecular structure data for one or more genes or gene products of interest. Data are displayed with a set of visualization tools that are presented using a conceptual hierarchy from big to small, and many of the tools combine information from more than one data type. We describe the development of ePlant in this article and present several examples illustrating its integrative features for hypothesis generation. We also describe the process of deploying ePlant as an “app” on Araport. Building on readily available web services, the code for ePlant is freely available for any other biological species research

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Section: Protein and Dna Interaction Viewermentioning

confidence: 99%

ePlant: Visualizing and Exploring Multiple Levels of Data for Hypothesis Generation in Plant Biology

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“…For instance, in Figure 5, the two diagrams each contain eight instances of Amy. The presence diagram has a high clutter score (15) whereas the absence diagram has a low clutter score (8); our results indicate that there would be no significant difference in task performance when using these two diagrams. By contrast, the presence diagram in Figure 4 contains just two instances of Paul (clutter score 3) whereas the absence diagram contains 14 instances of Paul (clutter score 14); here significant differences were seen.…”

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“…We will appeal to well-matchedness in the context of individuals to derive hypotheses concerning the three answer choices. A second basis for our hypotheses comes from research on pre-attentive processing [15] and visual search [10,19,30,42]. This research suggests why it may be faster and less prone to error to identify the location of Paul in the left-hand diagram of Figure 4 compared to the right.…”

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Presence and Absence of Individuals in Diagrammatic Logics: An Empirical Comparison

2017

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Abstract.The development of diagrammatic logics is strongly motivated by the desire to make formal reasoning accessible to broad audiences. One major research problem, for which surprisingly little progress has been made, is to understand how to choose between semantically equivalent diagrams from the perspective of human cognition. The particular focus of this paper is on choosing between diagrams that represent either the presence or absence of individuals. To understand how to best make this choice, we conducted an empirical study. We found that representing the presence of individuals supported task performance either significantly better than, or no worse than, representing the absence of individuals. The particularly striking feature of our results was that representing the absence of individuals in a way that makes the diagram highly cluttered is detrimental to human cognition. As a result, diagrams with this feature should be avoided, but diagrams using presence (irrespective of diagram clutter) or low-cluttered absence can be used to support cognition in the context of the tasks performed in our study.

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“…looking at it), detailed vision occurs in a small area of the visual field [4]. During this process, one distinguishes graphical elements and their properties.…”

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Improving user comprehension of Euler diagrams

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Rodgers

Cheek

et al. 2013

2013 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing

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Abstract-The graphical choices made when laying out Euler diagrams impact upon both aesthetic quality and comprehensiveness. Graphical choices include the shape, size and colour of closed curves which are commonly described as retinal variables to which we are known to be perceptually sensitive. There is copious literature providing guidance as to how best use retinal variables to visualise both quantitative and qualitative information for a wide range range of diagram types. Further, this guidance is explicitly defined to optimise the users' comprehension of such information. However, there exists little, if any, literature affording guidance as to how best to use retinal variables when laying out Euler diagrams. Here we present a novel insight as to where retinal variables manifest in Euler diagrams, how they might influence our perception of Euler diagrams and, as a consequence, provide motivation and guidance for establishing layout guidelines.

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Attention and Visual Memory in Visualization and Computer Graphics

Cited by 308 publications

References 134 publications

ePlant: Visualizing and Exploring Multiple Levels of Data for Hypothesis Generation in Plant Biology

ePlant: Visualizing and Exploring Multiple Levels of Data for Hypothesis Generation in Plant Biology

Presence and Absence of Individuals in Diagrammatic Logics: An Empirical Comparison

Improving user comprehension of Euler diagrams

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