News organizations, non-profits, and even government agencies use information graphics to advertise and communicate their messages. Data visualizations are used heavily in these graphics, but they also often incorporate unusual design elements to ...
Symbols and shapes are commonly employed to represent data in visualizations such as scatterplots. Practitioners, scientists, and automated visualization tools are reliant on empirical analyses of visual encoding strategies, taking into account th...
This thesis questions the use of the theory of affordance, a psychological theory of perception, as the basis for a symbolic design methodology in human-computer interaction. By comparing the psychological writings on affordance of James J. Gibson...
Childhood obesity is a persistent health issue in the United States. There has been an increase in the number of meals purchased away from home as the presence of fast food establishments has risen. Previous studies suggest that children who frequ...
Information visualization is an increasingly widespread way to present and analyze complex data, but there is much we still do not know about how people understand visually presented information. Every visualization contains certain assumptions ab...
