Get Started Metacognitive Processes in Reasoning with Deceptive Visualizations

Visual data analysis transforms data into visual representations to make it accessible to humans for exploration and analysis through the visual system. This makes humans a central part of the data analysis process. In this area of human-computer interaction, special challenges arise from the limitations of human perception, cognition, and reasoning. The highly interdisciplinary CogVis project, which brings together cognitive psychology and visualization research in computer science, pursues two main goals that are conceived as closely intertwined activities: (1) a better understanding of the perceptual and cognitive mechanisms involved in visual data analysis, and (2) the development of more effective visual data analysis techniques. Better understanding of (1) should support better development of (2), and progress in (2) should in turn provide further insight into (1). That is, we are exploring a "forward loop" that produces techniques and a simultaneous "backward loop" that leads to cognitive insights.

Project Duration

01.03.2025-31.12.2025

Project Lead 

Antonia Schlieder