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Research Interests
The study of visual thinking and communication: how it works, and how we can make it work better; how leveraging the visual system - the largest single system in your brain - can help people think, remember, and communicate more efficiently.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Psychology; Cognition, Brain, & Behavior, PhD, Harvard University
… → 2004
Psychology; Cognition, Brain, & Behavior, MA, Harvard University
… → 2001
Cognitive Science and Computer Science, BA, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
… → 1999
Research interests keywords
- Visual Cognition
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Developing and Evaluating Tools for Communicating Statistical Evidence to Education Decision-Makers
Tipton, E. (PD/PI), Coburn, C. E. (Other) & Franconeri, S. (Other)
Institute of Education Sciences
8/1/24 → 7/31/27
Project: Research project
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HCC: Medium: Visual Processing Capacity in Dynamic Data
Franconeri, S. (PD/PI), Franconeri, S. (PD/PI) & Franconeri, S. (PD/PI)
10/1/21 → 9/30/25
Project: Research project
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CHS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Empirically Validated Perceptual Tasks for Data Visualization
Franconeri, S. (PD/PI) & Franconeri, S. (PD/PI)
10/1/19 → 9/30/25
Project: Research project
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Collaborative Research: Mechanisms of Visuospatial Thinking in STEM
Franconeri, S. (PD/PI)
4/1/17 → 3/31/22
Project: Research project
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CGV: Medium: Collaborative Research: Visualizing Comparisons
Franconeri, S. (PD/PI)
9/1/12 → 8/31/17
Project: Research project
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Gridlines Mitigate Sine Illusion in Line Charts
Knittel, C., Awuah, J., Franconeri, S. & Bearfield, C. X., 2024, Proceedings - 2024 IEEE Visualization Conference - Short Papers, VIS 2024. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., p. 246-250 5 p. (Proceedings - 2024 IEEE Visualization Conference - Short Papers, VIS 2024).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Language systematizes attention: How relational language enhances relational representation by guiding attention
Yuan, L., Novack, M., Uttal, D. & Franconeri, S., Feb 2024, In: Cognition. 243, 105671.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Scopus citations -
Reading a Graph Is Like Reading a Paragraph
Boger, T. & Franconeri, S., May 23 2024, In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 153, 7, p. 1699-1704 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Reasoning Affordances with Tables and Bar Charts
Xiong, C., Lee-Robbins, E., Zhang, I., Gaba, A. & Franconeri, S., Jul 1 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 30, 7, p. 3487-3502 16 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
7 Scopus citations -
Same Data, Diverging Perspectives: The Power of Visualizations to Elicit Competing Interpretations
Bearfield, C. X., Van Weelden, L., Waytz, A. & Franconeri, S., Jun 1 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. 30, 6, p. 2995-3007 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access5 Scopus citations
Datasets
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Data for Gestalt similarity groupings are not constructed in parallel
Franconeri, S. L. (Creator), Tam, D. (Creator) & Yu, D. (Creator), Harvard Dataverse, Aug 8 2018
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/od56ot, https://dataverse.harvard.edu/citation?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/OD56OT
Dataset
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Data from: Are categorical spatial relations encoded by shifting visual attention between objects?
Yuan, L. (Creator), Uttal, D. (Creator) & Franconeri, S. (Creator), Dryad, Sep 13 2017
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.7bc49, https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.7bc49
Dataset
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Data from: Are categorical spatial relations encoded by shifting visual attention between objects?
Yuan, L. (Contributor), Uttal, D. (Contributor) & Franconeri, S. (Contributor), ZENODO, Sep 13 2017
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.7bc49, https://zenodo.org/records/4977178
Dataset
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Visual working memory for connected 3D objects: effects of stimulus complexity, dimensionality and connectivity
He, C. (Creator), Gunalp, P. (Creator), Meyerhoff, H. S. (Creator), Rathbun, Z. (Creator), Stieff, M. (Creator), Franconeri, S. L. (Creator) & Hegarty, M. (Creator), figshare, 2022
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5851008, https://springernature.figshare.com/collections/Visual_working_memory_for_connected_3D_objects_effects_of_stimulus_complexity_dimensionality_and_connectivity/5851008
Dataset
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Similarity Grouping as Feature-Based Selection
Yu, D. (Creator), Xiao, X. (Creator), Bemis, D. K. (Creator) & Franconeri, S. L. (Creator), figshare, 2019
DOI: 10.25384/sage.c.4386680, https://sage.figshare.com/collections/Similarity_Grouping_as_Feature-Based_Selection/4386680
Dataset