TY - GEN
T1 - Human aspects of visualization
AU - Ebert, Achim
AU - Dix, Alan
AU - Gershon, Nahum
AU - Pohl, Margit
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The quantity of data available in our modern information society is ever-growing. It is becoming unfeasible for any one person to oversee, much less understand the overwhelming amount of unstructured, multidimensional information he or she is confronted with every day. The human visual system, the "mind's eye", relies in large part on the eye and on the processing and the interpretation of the information processed by the brain. Visualization utilizes both.
AB - The quantity of data available in our modern information society is ever-growing. It is becoming unfeasible for any one person to oversee, much less understand the overwhelming amount of unstructured, multidimensional information he or she is confronted with every day. The human visual system, the "mind's eye", relies in large part on the eye and on the processing and the interpretation of the information processed by the brain. Visualization utilizes both.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70349581949&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-03658-3_133
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-03658-3_133
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:70349581949
SN - 3642036570
SN - 9783642036576
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
SP - 965
EP - 966
BT - Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2009 - 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Proceedings
T2 - 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2009
Y2 - 24 August 2009 through 28 August 2009
ER -