[stcusesig_l] Looking for some data

[Susan Fowler]

Hi Mary:

Try--
 
Leland Wilkinson, The Grammar of Graphics, Springer-Verlag, 1999.

Jacques Bertin, Semiology of Graphics, University of Wisconsin Press, 1983
(out of print but available at some libraries and out-of-print book
services)

I would also look into the literature about developing expertise (i.e.,
understanding something at a glance)--

David G. Myers, Intuition, Its Power and Perils, Yale University Press, 2002
Gary Klein, Intuition at Work, Doubleday, 2003
Sandra P. Marshall, Schemas in Problem Solving, Cambridge University Press,
1995
Z. Michalewicz and David B. Fogel, How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics,
Springer-Verlag, 2002.

I hope this helps!

--Susan

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> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Mary Deaton <mmdeaton at mmdeaton.com>
wrote:
>> I am working with a client who is creating a small application in 
>> which a person can manipulate objects in order to show importance, 
>> intensity, and relationships. The objects will be shapes or icons. 
>> The question has arisen about whether people already assign meaning 
>> to objects based on size, color, or opacity. We certainly see from 
>> tag clouds that there is an assumption that a larger size indicates a 
>> greater value, but part of the question is what value?
>>
>> I have spent the past several hours doing a literature search about 
>> visual rhetoric, interaction design, icons, visualization, and some 
>> other choice words, but have yet to locate something that is not just 
>> opinion and indicates that there is a known, documented convention 
>> that we might refer to. IF I cannot resolve the issue via a 
>> literature search, I need to do some user testing, fast.
>>
>> Does anyone have a pointer to the perfect article? Or book title?
>>
>> --
>> Mary Deaton
>> Deaton Interactive Design