Steven Franconeri

About

Steven Franconeri is a Professor of Psychology at Northwestern University, and Director of the Northwestern Cognitive Science Program. His research is on visual thinking, visual communication, and the psychology of data visualization. He directs the Visual Thinking Laboratory, where a team of researchers explore the power and limits of your visual system, and determine whether better design and pedagogy can help students and scientists understand and use visualizations across paper, screens, and visual imagination. His work on both Cognitive Science and Data Visualization has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Education, and the Department of Defense. He has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award, and a Psychonomic Society Early Career award, for his research on visual thinking.

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2017 Program Information includes Agenda, Speakers and Posters

Grant

Teaching Perceptual and Conceptual Processes in Graph Interpretation

Throughout K-12 education, science inquiry standards and curricula emphasize the importance of developing the skills needed to comprehend graphically presented data. Learning to extract relational information from graphs requires specialized processing and both conceptual and perceptual skills. At the core of this study is the process by which the visual system transforms pictorial representations into a set of relations among objects. This project will explore how students extract these rel...

Federal funding program:

Education Research Grants

Award number:

R305A120531

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