Abstract Information visualization (InfoVis), the study of transforming data, information, and
knowledge into interactive visual representations, is very important to users because it …

Knowledge of human perception has long been incorporated into visualizations to enhance
their quality and effectiveness. The last decade, in particular, has shown an increase in …

In this paper we move beyond memorability and investigate how visualizations are
recognized and recalled. For this study we labeled a dataset of 393 visualizations and …

This article highlights the role that emotions play in engagements with data and their
visualisation. To date, the relationship between data and emotions has rarely been noted, in …

Although the infographic and design communities have used simple pictographic
representations for decades, it is still unclear whether they can make visualizations more …

We present an evaluation of Colorgorical, a web-based tool for creating discriminable and
aesthetically preferable categorical color palettes. Colorgorical uses iterative semi-random …

Ensemble coding supports rapid extraction of visual statistics about distributed visual
information. Researchers typically study this ability with the goal of drawing conclusions …

We present the results of two perception studies to assess how quickly people can perform a
simple data comparison task for small-scale visualizations on a smartwatch. The main goal …

We investigate priming and anchoring effects on perceptual tasks in visualization. Priming or
anchoring effects depict the phenomena that a stimulus might influence subsequent human …

The visual system can make highly efficient aggregate judgements about a set of objects,
with speed roughly independent of the number of objects considered. While there is a rich …