Cognitive Psychology and Visualization Research

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Visualization is the process of displaying information to a user in a way that can improve the user’s understanding. It is particularly useful in enhancing features of risk and uncertainty in data. These features enhance the user’s awareness of risk and uncertainty and improve reasoning with probabilistic information. These visualizations can also reduce the typical comprehension challenges that people have when interpreting probability information. Moreover, these visualizations have also been shown to improve the user’s understanding of safety issues.