Mapping Color to Meaning in Colormap Data Visualizations
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DOI: 10.1109/tvcg.2018.2865147
Abstract: To interpret data visualizations, people must determine how visual features map onto concepts. For example, to interpret colormaps, people must determine how dimensions of color (e.g., lightness, hue) map onto quantities of a given measure… read more here.
Keywords: data visualizations; background color; color; colormap data ... See more keywords
Affective Color Scales for Colormap Data Visualizations.
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DOI: 10.1109/tvcg.2025.3634775
Abstract: Research on affective visualization design has shown that color is an especially powerful feature for influencing the emotional connotation of visualizations. Associations between colors and emotions are largely driven by lightness (e.g., lighter colors are… read more here.
Keywords: colormap data; affective color; color scales; data visualizations ... See more keywords