Value of Visualization


Topic Notes
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Readings
J.-D. Fekete, J. van Wijk, J. Stasko, C. North, "The Value of Information Visualization", in
Information Visualization: Human-Centered Issues and Perspectives, (Editors: A. Kerren, J. Stasko, J.-D. Fekete, C. North), Springer, 2008, pp. 1-18.
D. Norman, "The Power of Representation", Chapter 3 in
Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine, Addison-Wesley, 1994.
J. van Wijk, "The value of visualization," Proc. of Visualization '05, Oct. 2005, pp.79-86.

Additional Papers
R. Chang, C. Ziemkiewicz, T. M. Green, and W. Ribarsky. "Defining Insight for Visual Analytics."
IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, Vol. 29, No. 2, Feb. 2009, pp. 14-17.
J. Larkin, H.A. Simon, "Why a Diagram is (Sometimes) Worth Ten Thousand Words",
Cognitive Science, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 65-99, 1987.
Z. Liu, N. Nersessian, J. Stasko, "Distributed Cognition as a Theoretical Framework for Information Visualization",
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 14, No. 6, Nov/Dec 2008, pp. 1173-1180.
Z. Liu and J. Stasko, "Mental Models, Visual Reasoning and Interaction in Information Visualization: A Top-down Perspective",
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, (InfoVis '10), Vol. 16, No. 6, November/December 2010, pp. 999-1008.

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