- My lab studies visual reasoning,
which is how we can connect visual features
like color and shape and size
that we use in information visualizations
like graphs and maps and signs and color maps,
so how we can connect those visual features
to meaning.
- Visual reasoning is just very simply
how we make sense of visualizations
that are presented to us.
So say you're in a math class
and you're solving an algebra problem.
And next to the algebra problem is a type of visualization.
How could this visualization help you solve the math problem?
What type of information is this visualization telling you
that is relevant to the problem that you're solving?
When you're thinking about how a certain visualization
might help you solve a problem, that's visual reasoning.