{"id":203,"date":"2012-10-17T15:43:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T23:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2012-10-17T15:43:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T23:43:33","slug":"response-to-paper-critiques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/blog\/2012\/response-to-paper-critiques\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Paper Critiques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of people critiqued our paper, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/research\/attention\/papers\/Haroz_Whitney_2012_InfoVis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">How Capacity Limits of Attention Influence Information Visualization Effectiveness<\/a>,&#8221; which won the best paper award at InfoVis 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The criticism is largely centered on which colors we used, namely their luminance and contrast. The criticism is based on a misunderstanding or misreading of our paper.<\/p>\n<p>We have two responses:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Target and distractor colors were selected randomly for each trial and fully counterbalanced; every target color was also used as a distractor. Color and\/or luminance pop-out, and discriminability differences between targets and distractors do not explain the results. Rather, grouping modulates search efficiency: <a title=\"Color demo\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/34yXjRIIfU4?hd=1\" target=\"_blank\">Here is a demo<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Color and luminance contrast explanations do not explain our results for motion. <a title=\"Motion demo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sG6ZSCnUhw4&amp;hd=1\" target=\"_blank\">Here is a demo<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of people critiqued our paper, &#8220;How Capacity Limits of Attention Influence Information Visualization Effectiveness,&#8221; which won the best paper award at InfoVis 2012. The criticism is largely centered on which colors we used, namely their luminance and contrast. The criticism is based on a misunderstanding or misreading of our paper. We have two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visualization","tag-infovis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/steveharoz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}