6 papers
Understanding Data Visualization Design Practice
Paul Parsons
Professional roles for data visualization designers are growing in popularity, and interest in relationships between the academic research and professional practice communities is…
Fixation and Creativity in Data Visualization Design: Experiences and Perspectives of Practitioners
Paul Parsons, Prakash Shukla, Chorong Park
Data visualization design often requires creativity, and research is needed to understand its nature and means for promoting it. The current visualization literature on creativity…
How do Visualization Designers Think? Design Cognition as a Core Aspect of Visualization Psychology
Paul Parsons
There are numerous opportunities for engaging in research at the intersection of psychology and visualization. While most opportunities taken up by the VIS community will likely fo…
Data Visualization Practitioners' Perspectives on Chartjunk
Paul Parsons, Prakash Shukla
Chartjunk is a popular yet contentious topic. Previous studies have shown that extreme minimalism is not always best, and that visual embellishments can be useful depending on the…
Design Judgment in Data Visualization Practice
Paul Parsons, Colin M. Gray, Ali Baigelenov +1
Data visualization is becoming an increasingly popular field of design practice. Although many studies have highlighted the knowledge required for effective data visualization desi…
Hack.VR: A Programming Game in Virtual Reality
Dominic Kao, Christos Mousas, Alejandra J. Magana +6
In this article we describe Hack.VR, an object-oriented programming game in virtual reality. Hack.VR uses a VR programming language in which nodes represent functions and node conn…