(Screenshot: masternewmedia.org)
Juan C. Dürsteler shows in his article at masternewmedia.org graphical possibilities to provide instant focus to selected information items in information visualizations:
“One of the reasons why visualisation can be so powerful has its roots in the fact that there’s a series of identification and recognition operations that our brain performs in an “automatic” way without the need to focus our attention or even be conscious of them.
Managing properly the elements that are “pre-attentively” processed can make a difference in a user interface. It sometimes happens that certain elements of a graphic representation, maybe a colour or an icon pop out.”
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How To Provide Instant Focus To Selected Information Items
