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Ronald A. Rensink
Traditionally, vision science and information/data visualization have interacted by using knowledge of human vision to help design effective displays. It is argued here, however, that this interaction can also go in the opposite direction: the investigation of successful visualizations can lead to the discovery of…
José F. Rodrigues, Agma JM Traina, Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira, Caetano Traina
'Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira' 'Caetano Traina'] We revisit the design space of visualizations aiming at identifying and relating its components. In this sense, we establish a model to examine the process through which visualizations become expressive for users. This model has leaded us to a taxonomy oriented to…
Victor Cavaller
This article consists of a conceptual analysis-from the perspective of communication sciences-of the relevant aspects that should be considered during operational steps in data visualization. The analysis is performed taking as a reference the components that integrate the communication framework theory-the message…
Wei Zhang, Jonathan A Fine, Christopher Sculley, Jordon McGraw + 1 more
The representation of complex biomolecular structures and interactions is a difficult challenge across life sciences. Researchers and students use unintuitive 2D representations to gain an intuitive understanding of 3D space and molecular interactions. Since this is cumbersome for complex structures, such as…
Murat Cihan Sorkun, Dajt Mullaj, J. M. Vianney A. Koelman, Süleyman Er
Visualizing chemical spaces streamlines the analysis of molecular datasets by reducing the information to human perception level, hence it forms an integral piece of molecular engineering, including chemical library design, high-throughput screening, diversity analysis, and outlier detection. We present here ChemPlot…
David Meijer, Marnix H. Medema, Justin J. J. van der Hooft
Effective visualization of small molecules is paramount in conveying concepts and results in cheminformatics. Scalable vector graphics (SVG) are preferred for creating such visualizations, as SVGs can be easily altered in post-production and exported to other formats. A wide spectrum of software applications already…
José F. Rodrigues, Luciana Zaina, M. Beatriz P.P. Oliveira, Bruno Brandoli Machado + 1 more
sciences Authors: ['José F. Rodrigues' 'Luciana Zaina' 'M. Beatriz P.P. Oliveira' 'Bruno Brandoli Machado' 'Agma J. M. Traina'] Information Visualization techniques are built on a context with many factors related to both vision and cognition, making it difficult to draw a clear picture of how data visually turns into…
Sergio Pablo-García, Raúl Pérez-Soto, Albert Sabadell-Rendón, Diego Garay-Ruiz + 2 more
In the study of chemical reactions, visualizing reaction networks is pivotal for identifying crucial compounds and reactions. Traditional methods, such as network schematics and reaction path linear plots, often struggle to effectively represent complex reaction networks due to their size and intricate connectivity.…
D. Samuel Schwarzkopf, Xinran A. Yu, Ecem Altan, Loren N. Bouyer + 3 more
Research on mental visual imagery typically relies on vividness ratings. However, vividness is ill-defined as it lacks an objective reference. Here, we present survey results that suggest vividness is nevertheless a robust measure. It explains individual differences of a broad range of subjective experiences, from the…
Paul Vickers, Joe Faith, Nick Rossiter
—This article combines the vocabulary of semiotics and category theory to provide a formal analysis of visualization. It shows how familiar processes of visualization fit the semiotic frameworks of both Saussure and Peirce, and extends these structures using the tools of category theory to provide a general framework…
Yi Chen, Caixia Wu, Qinghui Zhang, Di Wu
With the availability of big data for food safety, more and more advanced data analysis methods are being applied to risk analysis and prewarning (RAPW). Visual analytics, which has emerged in recent years, integrates human and machine intelligence into the data analysis process in a visually interactive manner…
Aoyu Wu, Wai Tong, Haotian Li, Dominik Moritz + 2 more
'Huamin Qu'] Data visualizations are created and shared on the web at an unprecedented speed, raising new needs and questions for processing and analyzing visualizations after they have been generated and digitized. However, existing formalisms focus on operating on a single visualization instead of multiple…
Christina Humer, Rachel Nicholls, Henry Heberle, Moritz Heckmann + 7 more
Chemical reaction optimization (RO) is an iterative process that results in large and high-dimensional datasets. Current tools only allow for limited analysis and understanding of parameter spaces, making it hard for scientists to review or follow changes throughout the process. With the recent emergence of using…
Wesley Willett, Bon Adriel Aseniero, Sheelagh Carpendale, Pierre Dragicevic + 3 more
'Pierre Dragicevic' 'Yvonne Jansen' 'Lora Oehlberg' 'Petra Isenberg'] Abstract—We explore how the lens of fictional superpowers can help characterize how visualizations empower people and provide inspiration for new visualization systems. Researchers and practitioners often tout visualizations' ability to "make the…
D. Samuel Schwarzkopf, Xinran A. Yu, Ecem Altan, Loren N. Bouyer + 3 more
Research on mental visual imagery typically relies on vividness ratings. However, vividness is ill-defined as it lacks an objective reference. Here, we present survey results that suggest vividness is nevertheless a robust trait. It explains individual differences of a broad range of subjective experiences, from the…
Min Chen, Amos Golan
—In this paper, we present an abstract model of visualization and inference processes and describe an information-theoretic measure for optimizing such processes. In order to obtain such an abstraction, we first examined six classes of workflows in data analysis and visualization, and identified four levels of typical…
Dagny Aurich, Aida Horaniet Ibañez
Rhetoric is the study of the communication techniques used to inform, persuade, or motivate a given audience in a particular situation, modifying their conceptions and attitudes toward the object of communication. Visual rhetoric (as an artifact) is the purposeful production or arrangement of colors, forms, and other…
Aarit Ahuja, Nadira Yusif Rodriguez, Alekh Karkada Ashok, Thomas Serre + 2 more
Visual simulation — i.e., using internal reconstructions of the world to experience potential future versions of events that are not currently happening — is among the most sophisticated capacities of the human mind. But is this ability in fact uniquely human? To answer this question, we tested monkeys on a series of…
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Understanding the types and locations of interactions between atoms or molecules within a chemical system is a fundamental concern in chemistry. In the field of theoretical and computational chemistry, wavefunction analysis offers various methods based on functions defined in three-dimensional real space, enabling the…
Tobias Rolfes, Jürgen Roth, Wolfgang Schnotz
In this paper we present a laboratory experiment in which 157 secondary-school students learned the concept of function with either static representations or dynamic visualizations. We used two different versions of dynamic visualization in order to evaluate whether interactivity had an impact on learning outcome. In…
Loren N. Bouyer, Dietrich S. Schwarzkopf, Blake W. Saurels, Derek H. Arnold
Most people can imagine images that they experience within their mind’s eye. However, there are marked individual differences, with some people reporting that they are unable to construct mental images at all (aphantasics), and others who report having imagined experiences that are as realistic as seeing…
Jussi Alho, Athanasios Gotsopoulos, Juha Silvanto
Conscious experiences normally result from the flow of external input into our sensory systems. However, we can also create conscious percepts independently of sensory stimulation. These internally generated percepts are referred to as mental images, and they have many similarities with real visual percepts.…
Nadine Dijkstra, Pim Mostert, Floris P. de Lange, Sander Bosch + 1 more
Visual perception and imagery rely on similar representations in the visual cortex. During perception, visual activity is characterized by distinct processing stages, but the temporal dynamics underlying imagery remain unclear. Here, we investigated the dynamics of visual imagery in human participants using…
Michael H. Herzog
What is fundamental in vision has been discussed for millennia. For philosophical realists and the physiological approach to vision, the objects of the outer world are truly given, and failures to perceive objects properly, such as in illusions, are just sporadic misperceptions. The goal is to replace the subjectivity…
Fernanda I. Saldívar-González, José L. Medina-Franco
Chemical space is a powerful, general, and practical conceptual framework in drug discovery and other areas in chemistry that addresses the diversity of molecules and it has various applications. Moreover, chemical space is a cornerstone of chemoinformatics as a scientific discipline. In response to the increase in the…