“The Empathic Visualisation Algorithm: Chernoff Faces Revisited” by Loizides and Slater

  • ©Andreas Loizides and Mel Slater

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    The Empathic Visualisation Algorithm: Chernoff Faces Revisited

Session/Category Title:   Visualization


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    A method for constructing an automatic mapping from data to visual structure which enforces a homomorphism between important characteristics of the data and the emotional/perceptual impact of the visual structure.

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    1. Chernoff, H. (1971). The use of faces to represent points in n-dimensional space graphically. RN NR-042 993, Department of Statistics, Stanford University, December 1971.
    2. Waters, K. & Parke, F. (1987). A muscle model for animating 3-dimensional facial expression. SIGGRAPH 87 Conferenence Proceedings, Computer Graphics, 21 (4), 17-24.


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