7 Perception and Cognitive Aspects - Visual Analytics

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7 Perception and Cognitive MotivationThe human is at the heart of Visual Analytics human interaction, analysis,intuition, problem solving and Visual chapter is entitled Perception and cognition , and it is possible to have a narrow focus ofthis looking purely at the perceptual and Cognitive Aspects during the timewhen a user interacts directly with a visualisation or adjusts parameters in amodel. However, there are many human-related Aspects of Visual analyticsbeyond those involved in the direct interactions between a user and a visualrepresentation of data. Figure presents a simplified view of the broad visualanalytics process that emphasises some of the wider context and the humanissues interactiondecisionactionworldorganisati onal, social and political context?Figure : The human context of Visual analyticsWorking through the numbered parts of Figure , Visual Analytics involvessome data (1), typically being processed (2) computationally ( , machinelearning, statistics), then visualised (3) and interpreted by the user (4) inorder to perform problem solving, analysis The pie-shaped region (5)represents the obvious direct interactions between the primary user, processingand visualisation.

7.2 State of the Art 111 classification. Results from low-level vision research are finding their way now in visualisation and visual analytics[122], but results from high-level vision research are not yet adopted.

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