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Perceptual Principles 

 

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Today

• Visual and Perceptual Principles• Which Visual Elements to Use for What?

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Visual Principles

• Vision as Knowledge Acquisition• Pre-attentive Properties• Gestalt Properties• Sensory vs. Arbitrary Symbols• Relative Expressiveness of Visual Cues

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Vision as Knowledge Acquisition

• Perception as a Constructive Act– What you see is not necessarily what you get

• Adaptation of vision to different lighting situations• Image aftereffects• Optical illusions• Ambiguous figures

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Vision as Knowledge Acquisition

• Perception as Modeling the Environment– Evolutionary purpose– When you close your eyes, the world doesn’t

disappear!– Examples:

• Visual completion• Object occlusion• Impossible objects

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Vision as Knowledge Acquisition

• Perception as Apprehension of Meaning– Classification– Attention and consciousness

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7Slide adapted from Stone & Zellweger

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8Slide adapted from Stone & Zellweger

Physical World Visual System Mental Models

Lights, surfaces, objects

Eye, optic nerve, visual

cortex

Red, white, shape

Stop sign

STOP!

Stimulus Perception CognitionExternal World

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9Slide adapted from Stone & Zellweger

Visual System

• Light path– Cornea, pupil, lens,

retina– Optic nerve, brain

• Retinal cells– Rods and cones– Unevenly distributed

• Cones– Three “color receptors”– Concentrated in fovea

• Rods– Low-light receptor– Peripheral vision

From Gray’s Anatomy

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10Slide adapted from Stone & Zellweger

Cone Response • Encode spectra as three values

– Long, medium and short (LMS)– Trichromacy: only LMS is “seen”– Different spectra can “look the same”

• Sort of like a digital camera*

From A Field Guide to Digital Color, © A.K. Peters, 2003

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11Slide adapted from Stone & Zellweger

Eyes vs. Cameras• Cameras

– Good optics– Single focus, white balance, exposure– “Full image capture”

• Eyes– Relatively poor optics– Constantly scanning (saccades)– Constantly adjusting focus– Constantly adapting (white balance, exposure)– Mental reconstruction of image (sort of)

http://www.usd.edu/psyc301/ChangeBlindness.htm

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12Slide adapted from Stone & Zellweger

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13Slide adapted from Stone & Zellweger

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14Slide adapted from Stone & Zellweger

Color is relative

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Interference

• RED• GREEN• BLUE• PURPLE• ORANGE

• Call out the color of the letters

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Interference

• PURPLE• ORANGE• GREEN• BLUE• RED

• Call out the color of the letters

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Preattentive Processing

• A limited set of visual properties are processed preattentively– (without need for focusing attention).

• This is important for design of visualizations– What can be perceived immediately?– Which properties are good discriminators?– What can mislead viewers?

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Example: Color Selection

Viewer can rapidly and accurately determinewhether the target (red circle) is present or absent.Difference detected in color.

From Healey 97http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/PP/index.html

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Example: Shape Selection

Viewer can rapidly and accurately determinewhether the target (red circle) is present or absent.Difference detected in form (curvature)

From Healey 97http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/PP/index.html

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Pre-attentive Processing

• < 200 - 250ms qualifies as pre-attentive– eye movements take at least 200ms– yet certain processing can be done very quickly,

implying low-level processing in parallel

• If a decision takes a fixed amount of time regardless of the number of distractors, it is considered to be preattentive.

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Demonstration

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Time proportional to the number of digits

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Time proportional to the number of 7’s

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Both 3’s and 7’sseen preattentively

• Count the 7’s

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Contrast Creates Pop-out

Hue and lightness Lightness only

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Pop-out vs. Distinguishable

• Pop-out– Typically, 5-6 distinct values simultaneously– Up to 9 under controlled conditions

• Distinguishable– 20 easily for reasonable sized stimuli– More if in a controlled context– Usually need a legend

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Example: Conjunction of Features

Viewer cannot rapidly and accurately determinewhether the target (red circle) is present or absent when target has two or more features, each of which arepresent in the distractors. Viewer must search sequentially.

From Healey 97http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/PP/index.html

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Let’s try it!

• http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/PP/index.html

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Example: Emergent Features

Target has a unique feature with respect to distractors (open sides) and so the groupcan be detected preattentively.

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Example: Emergent Features

Target does not have a unique feature with respect to distractors and so the group cannot be detected preattentively.

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Asymmetric and Graded Preattentive Properties

• Some properties are asymmetric– a sloped line among vertical lines is preattentive– a vertical line among sloped ones is not

• Some properties have a gradation– some more easily discriminated among than others

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Use Grouping of Well-Chosen Shapes for Displaying Multivariate Data

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SUBJECT PUNCHED QUICKLY OXIDIZED TCEJBUS DEHCNUP YLKCIUQ DEZIDIXOCERTAIN QUICKLY PUNCHED METHODS NIATREC YLKCIUQ DEHCNUP SDOHTEMSCIENCE ENGLISH RECORDS COLUMNS ECNEICS HSILGNE SDROCER SNMULOCGOVERNS PRECISE EXAMPLE MERCURY SNREVOG ESICERP ELPMAXE YRUCREMCERTAIN QUICKLY PUNCHED METHODS NIATREC YLKCIUQ DEHCNUP SDOHTEMGOVERNS PRECISE EXAMPLE MERCURY SNREVOG ESICERP ELPMAXE YRUCREMSCIENCE ENGLISH RECORDS COLUMNS ECNEICS HSILGNE SDROCER SNMULOCSUBJECT PUNCHED QUICKLY OXIDIZED TCEJBUS DEHCNUP YLKCIUQ DEZIDIXOCERTAIN QUICKLY PUNCHED METHODS NIATREC YLKCIUQ DEHCNUP SDOHTEMSCIENCE ENGLISH RECORDS COLUMNS ECNEICS HSILGNE SDROCER SNMULOC

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SUBJECT PUNCHED QUICKLY OXIDIZED TCEJBUS DEHCNUP YLKCIUQ DEZIDIXOCERTAIN QUICKLY PUNCHED METHODS NIATREC YLKCIUQ DEHCNUP SDOHTEMSCIENCE ENGLISH RECORDS COLUMNS ECNEICS HSILGNE SDROCER SNMULOCGOVERNS PRECISE EXAMPLE MERCURY SNREVOG ESICERP ELPMAXE YRUCREMCERTAIN QUICKLY PUNCHED METHODS NIATREC YLKCIUQ DEHCNUP SDOHTEMGOVERNS PRECISE EXAMPLE MERCURY SNREVOG ESICERP ELPMAXE YRUCREMSCIENCE ENGLISH RECORDS COLUMNS ECNEICS HSILGNE SDROCER SNMULOCSUBJECT PUNCHED QUICKLY OXIDIZED TCEJBUS DEHCNUP YLKCIUQ DEZIDIXOCERTAIN QUICKLY PUNCHED METHODS NIATREC YLKCIUQ DEHCNUP SDOHTEMSCIENCE ENGLISH RECORDS COLUMNS ECNEICS HSILGNE SDROCER SNMULOC

Text NOT Preattentive

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Preattentive Visual Properties(Healey 97)

length Triesman & Gormican [1988] width Julesz [1985] size Triesman & Gelade [1980] curvature Triesman & Gormican [1988] number Julesz [1985]; Trick & Pylyshyn [1994] terminators Julesz & Bergen [1983] intersection Julesz & Bergen [1983] closure Enns [1986]; Triesman & Souther [1985] colour (hue) Nagy & Sanchez [1990, 1992]; D'Zmura [1991]

Kawai et al. [1995]; Bauer et al. [1996] intensity Beck et al. [1983]; Triesman & Gormican [1988] flicker Julesz [1971] direction of motion Nakayama & Silverman [1986]; Driver & McLeod [1992] binocular lustre Wolfe & Franzel [1988] stereoscopic depth Nakayama & Silverman [1986] 3-D depth cues Enns [1990] lighting direction Enns [1990]

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Gestalt Principles

• Idea: forms or patterns transcend the stimuli used to create them.– Why do patterns emerge?– Under what circumstances?

• Principles of Pattern Recognition– “gestalt” German for “pattern” or “form, configuration”– Original proposed mechanisms turned out to be wrong– Rules themselves are still useful

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Gestalt PropertiesProximity

Why perceive pairs vs. triplets?

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Gestalt PropertiesSimilarity

Slide adapted from Tamara Munzner

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Gestalt PropertiesContinuity

Slide adapted from Tamara Munzner

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Gestalt PropertiesConnectedness

Slide adapted from Tamara Munzner

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Gestalt PropertiesClosure

Slide adapted from Tamara Munzner

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Gestalt PropertiesSymmetry

Slide adapted from Tamara Munzner

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Gestalt Laws of Perceptual Organization (Kaufman 74)

• Figure and Ground– Escher illustrations are good examples– Vase/Face contrast

• Subjective Contour

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Unexpected Effects

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Emergence

• Holistic perception of image

Slide adapted from Robert Kosara

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More Gestalt Laws

• Law of Common Fate– like preattentive motion property

• move a subset of objects among similar ones and they will be perceived as a group

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Influence on Visualization

• Why we care– Exploit strengths, avoid weaknesses– Optimize, not interfere

• Design criteria– Effectiveness– Expressiveness– No false messages

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Design criteria: Effectiveness

• Faster to interpret• More distinctions• Fewer errors

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

This?

Or this?

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Sensory vs. Arbitrary Symbols

• Sensory:– Understanding without training– Resistance to instructional bias– Sensory immediacy

• Hard-wired and fast

– Cross-cultural Validity

• Arbitrary– Hard to learn– Easy to forget– Embedded in culture and applications

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American Sign Language

• Primarily arbitrary, but partly representational

• Signs sometimes based partly on similarity– But you couldn’t guess

most of them– They differ radically across

languages• Sublanguages in ASL are

more representative– Diectic terms– Describing the layout of a

room, there is a way to indicate by pointing on a plane where different items sit.

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Which Properties are Appropriate for Which

Information Types?

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Interpretations of Visual Properties

Some properties can be discriminated more accurately but don’t have intrinsic meaning(Senay & Ingatious 97, Kosslyn, others)

– Density (Greyscale)Darker -> More

– Size / Length / AreaLarger -> More

– PositionLeftmost -> first, Topmost -> first

– Hue??? no intrinsic meaning

– Slope??? no intrinsic meaning

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Rankings: Encoding quantitative data

Cleveland & McGill 1984, adapted from Spence 2006

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Which properties used for what?

Stephen Few’s Table:

Attribute Quantitative Qualitative

Line length

2-D position

Orientation

Line width

Size

Shape

Curvature

Added marks

Enclosure

Hue

Intensity

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