Cognition & Data Visualization (CDV) Lab

What we do

In the Cognition and Data Visualization (CDV) lab, our research focuses on understanding how people perceive, attend to, interpret, remember, and make decisions from data visualizations. In particular, we are interested in understanding the cognitive constraints, limitations, and biases associated with the daily task of understanding data through visualizations. We also study how attention, cognitive control, and working memory relate to other cognitive behaviors like memory and decision making.

As an individual living with vision difficulties associated with pathological myopia, I am also interested in understanding how the rich visual information communicated through data visualizations can be made accessible to individuals with vision difficulties (e.g., blindness, low-vision, etc.).

Students interested in studying data visualization should contact me here or visit me on campus.

Skills and Tools

• Data Analysis: R, RStudio
• Git: GitHub, GitLab, GitDesktop
• Experimental Design: E-prime, PsychoPy (Python & JavaScript), Gorilla (JavaScript)
• Experiment Management: Sona-Systems (local experiments); Pavlovia & Prolific (for identifying samples for online data collection across the globe)
• Surveys: Qualtrics