A Survey Of Perception-Based Visualization Studies By Task

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.

Ghulam Jilani Quadri, and Paul Rosen. A Survey Of Perception-Based Visualization Studies By Task. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2022.

@article{quadri2021visualization,
  title = {A Survey of Perception-Based Visualization Studies by Task},
  author = {Quadri, Ghulam Jilani and Rosen, Paul},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG)},
  year = {2022},
  note = {textit{Presented at IEEE VIS 2022.}},
  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.}
}