A Survey of Perception-Based Visualization Studies by Task

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Ghulam Jilani Quadri, Paul Rosen

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Exemplar figure, described by caption below — The image shows a web resource as an interactive list of the papers we have reviewed and identified in our survey. The interactive web resources can be utilized to identify and filter the selected perception-based studies on visualization types, visual encoding, low-level visual tasks, authors, and venue. Please check our paper for more detail.

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Keywords

Visualization, perception, graphical perception, visual analytics tasks, evaluation, survey.

Abstract

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 perception-based visualization research studies. With all of this recent progress, the visualization community lacks a comprehensive guide to contextualize their results. In this report, we provide a systematic and comprehensive review of research studies on perception related to visualization. This survey reviews perception-focused visualization studies since 1980 and summarizes their research developments focusing on low-level tasks, further breaking techniques down by visual encoding and visualization type. In particular, we focus on how perception is used to evaluate the effectiveness of visualizations, to help readers understand and apply the principles of perception of their visualization designs through a task-optimized approach. We concluded our report with a summary of the weaknesses and open research questions in the area.