Abstract
Recent cognitive research indicates that the human brain possesses special abilities for processing information relating to outdoor scenes. Simulated outdoor scenes are presented as an effective method of displaying higher dimensional data in an efficient and comprehensible manner. We demonstrate novel methods of using outdoor objects and scenes to display multidimensional content in a way that that is intuitive for humans to understand, and to exploit various cues commonly found in scenes from the natural world to communicate the values of multiple variables.
Degree
MS
College and Department
Physical and Mathematical Sciences; Computer Science
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BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Hillery, Benjamin A., "Outdoor Scenes for Data Visualization" (2011). Theses and Dissertations. 3013.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3013
Date Submitted
2011-04-22
Document Type
Thesis
Handle
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/etd4418
Keywords
data visualization, natural scenes, graph comprehension, visual cognition
Language
English