From BELIV 2010

Presentation

Notes

- gestalt psychology: concept of insight: holistic theory of perception and reasoning similarity between perception and reasoning; perception is problem solving e.g., selection, continuum between perception and problem solving, cannot be divided into simple paths but with an underlying structure

- juggling with elements on the screen and get an insight

- make relationships between what you find out now and what you know already (selective comparison)

q and a:

- gist: walk into a room and do i have prototype of a room (e.g., meeting). same for vis: oh yes, there is a treemap and i expect this and that. analogy relies on our template, interesting factors to test: also in infovis to use past experience as analogies.

- link interaction pattern with cog process, possible to triangular data source with interactions and logs: also did other research to compare log files, differences and similarity

- how to design vis to support reformation: davidson, support processes (encoding, combination, and comparison), what people do may not be the same as the cog processes, and don't see them in log files. hard to figure out what's going on in people's head

- visual literacy, if users are better trained in problem solving, w/o vis: vis focuses on vis, but problem solving is overlooked. this is really a problem of problem solving, not just interpreting a scene