Reading Notes
CSE 442
Table of contents
“Information Visualization” from Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think
- Understanding often has visual connotations
- Vision is highly related to expanded intelligence
- “the power of the unaided mind is highly overrated”
- External cognition (Scaife and Rogers 1996)
- Multiplication charts, navigation charts, diagrams
- Visualization: “the use of computer-supported, interactive, visual representations of data to amplify cognition”
- Cognition: the acquisition or usage of knowledge
- Information chromatography: patterns in data revealed by laying them out in a visual substrate
- Knowledge crystallization task: person gathers information for some purpose and makes sense of it by onstructing a representational framework