You need a camera (camera phone will work well).
Locate a Qualitative Visual Display and take a photo.
Locate a Quantitative Visual Display and take a photo.
Locate a Status Indicator Display and take a photo.
Find two static visual symbolic displays and take photos.
For each of the symbolic displays, discuss the perceptual principles:
Clear and Stable figure-to-ground articulation
Contrast boundary vs. line boundary
Closed figures
Simplicity
Unified
Based on the perceptual principles, is this a good display? Could you improve it? How?
For the lab write-up, turn in a document with embedded photos with labels and the discussion for the symbolic
displays.
Sample Solution