Graphical Reasoning / Scientific Visualization
Kirschenbaum, S. S., Trafton, J. G., Schunn, C. D., & Trickett, S. B. (2014). Visualizing Uncertainty: The impact on performance. Human Factors, (56(3) 509-520.
Jang, J., Trickett, S. B., Schunn, C. D., & Trafton, J. G. (2012). Unpacking the temporal advantage of distributing complex visual displays. International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 70, 812-827.
Beck, M. R., Lohrenz, M. C., & Trafton, J. G. (2010). Measuring Search Efficiency in Complex Visual Search Tasks: Global and Local Clutter. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 16(3), 238-250.
Breslow, L., Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2009). Cognitive Models of the influence of type of color-scale on data visuallization tasks. Human Factors. 51(3), 321-338.
Breslow, L., Trafton, J. G., & Ratwani, R. M. (2009). A perceptual process approach to selecting color scales for complex visualizations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 15 (1), 25-34.
Trickett, S. B., & Trafton, J. G. (2009). A Primer on Verbal Protocol Analysis. In D., Schmorrow, J., Cohn, & D. Nicholson (Eds.), The PSI Handbook of Virtual Environments for Training and Education, Volume 1. (pp. 332-346). Westport, CT: Praeger Security International.
Trickett, S. B., Trafton, J. G., & Schunn, C. D., (2009). How Do Scientists Respond to Anomalies? Different Strategies Used in Basic and Applied Science. Topics in Cognitive Science. 1(4), 711-729.
Lohrenz, M. C., Trafton, J. G., Beck, M. R., & Gendron, M. L. (2009). A Model of Clutter for Complex, Multivariate, Geospatial Displays. Human Factors. 51(1), 90-101. [NRL Alan Berman Award Winner]
Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2008). Spatial memory guides task resumption. Visual Cognition. 16(8), 1001-1010. [Lead Article]
Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2008). Shedding Light on the Graph Schema: Perceptual features vs. invariant structure. Psychonomics Bulletin and Review. 15(4) 757-762.
Ratwani, R. M., Trafton, J. G., & Boehm-Davis, D. A. (2008). Thinking Graphically: Connecting Vision and Cognition during Graph Comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 14(1) 36-49. [Featured on Cognitive Daily: http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2009/01/]
Trickett, S. B. & Trafton, J. G. (2007). “What if...”: The Use of Conceptual Simulations in Scientific Reasoning. Cognitive Science, 31(5), 843-875.
Trickett, S. B., Trafton, J. G., Saner, L., & Schunn, C. D. (2007). “I don’t know what’s going on there”: The Use of Spatial Transformations to Deal With and Resolve Uncertainty in Complex Visualizations. In M. C. Lovett & Shah, P. (Eds.), Thinking with data (pp. 65-86). New York, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Schunn, C. D., Saner, L. D., Kirschenbaum, S. K., Trafton, J. G., & Littleton, E. B. (2007). Complex visual data analysis, uncertainty, and representation. In M. C. Lovett & Shah, P. (Eds.), Thinking with data (pp. 65-86). New York, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Trafton, J. G., & Hoffman, R. R. (2007). Computer-aided Visualization in Meteorology. In R. R. Hoffman (Ed.), Expertise out of context (pp. 337-358). New York, NY: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Trickett, S. B., & Trafton, J. G. (2007). The use of spatial cognition in graph interpretation. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Trafton, J. G., Trickett, S. B., Stitzlein, C. A., Saner, L., Schunn, C. D., & Kirschen- baum, S. S. (2006). The relationship between Spatial Transformations and Iconic Gestures. Spatial Cognition and Computation. 6(1), 1-29. [Lead Article]
Tricket, S. B. & Trafton, J. G. (2006). Toward a comprehensive model of graph comprehension: Making the case for spatial cognition. (pp. 286-300). In D. BarkerPlummer, R. Cox, & N. Swoboda (Eds.). Diagrammatic Representation and Inference.
Trafton, J. G., Trickett, S. B., & Mintz, F. E. (2005). Connecting internal and external representations: Spatial transformations of scientific visualizations. Foundations of Science. 10(1), 89-106.
Bogacz, S., & Trafton, J. G. (2005). Understanding Dynamic and Static displays: Using Images to Reason Dynamically. Cognitive Systems Research. 6(4), 312-319.
Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2005). Shedding Light on the Graph Schema. The proceedings of the twenty-seventh annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Trickett, S. B., & Trafton, J. G. (2005). Representation Matters: The Effect of Graph Selection on Data Interpretation Among Experts and Novices. The proceedings of the twenty-seventh annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Tricket, S. B. & Trafton, J. G. (2004). Spatial Transformations in graph comprehension. In A. F. Blackwell, K. Marriott, and A. Shimojima (Eds.). Diagrammatic Representation and Inference.
Ratwani, R. M., Trafton, J. G., & Boehm-Davis, D. A. (2004). From Specific Information Extraction to Inferences: A Preliminary Framework of Graph Comprehension. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 48th Annual Meeting.
Ratwani, R. M., & Trafton, J. G. (2004). Making Graphical Inferences: A Hierarchical Framework. The proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Trickett, S. B., & Trafton, J. G. (2004). Use of Spatial Transformations in Graph Comprehension. The proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Ratwani, R. M., Trafton, J. G., & Boehm-Davis, D. A. (2004). Making inferences from graphs. Division 21/19 Mid Year meeting. [Best Student Paper Award.]
Trafton, J. G. (2004). Dynamic Mental Models in weather forecasting. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 48th Annual Meeting.
Trickett, S. B., Schunn, C. D., & Trafton, J. G. (2004). Puzzles and Peculiarities: How Scientists Attend to and Process Anomalies During Data Analysis (2004). In M. E. Gorman, A. Kincannon, D. Gooding, & R. D. Tweney (Eds.), Spherical horses and shared toothbrushes: Recent developments in scientific and technological thinking.
Trickett, S. B., Watkins, T. E., & Trafton, J. G. (2003). How Novices Reason about Anomalies. The proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Trafton, J. G., Mintz, F. E., & Ballas, J. A. (2003). Navy forecasters’ use of multiple data source on land and at sea. Naturalistic Decision Making.
Ratwani, R. M., Trafton, J. G., & Boehm-Davis, D. A. (2003). Thinking Graphically: Extracting local and global information. The proceedings of the twenty-fifth annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Trickett, S. B. & Trafton, J. G. (2002). The Instantiation and Use of Conceptual Simulations in Evaluating Hypotheses: Movies-in-the-Mind in Scientific Reasoning. The proceedings of the twenty-fourth annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Jones, D. W., Ballas, J. A., Miyamoto, R. T., Tsui, T., Trafton, J. G., & Kirschenbaum, S. S. (2002). Human systems study on the use of meteorology and oceanography informaiton in support of the naval air strike mission (Technical Memorandum No. APLUW TM 8-02). Seattle, WA: Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington.
Trafton, J. G., Marshall, S., Mintz, F., & Trickett, S. B. (2002). Extracting explicit and implicit information from complex visualizations (pp. 206-220). In M. Hegarty, B. Meyer, & H. Narayanan (Eds.) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference.
Bogacz, S., & Trafton, J. G. (2002). Understanding static and dynamic images (pp. 247– 249). In M. Hegarty, B. Meyer, & H. Narayanan (Eds.) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference.
Trickett, S. B., Trafton, J. G., Schunn, C. D., & Harrison, A. (2001). “That’s Odd!” How Scientists Respond to Anomalous Data. The proceedings of the twenty-third annual conference of the cognitive science society
Trafton, J. G., & Trickett, S. B. (2001). A new model of graph and visualization usage (pp. 1048-1053). The proceedings of the twenty-third annual conference of the cognitive science society
Lanzagorta, M. O., Rosenberg, R., & Trafton, J. G. (2001). Cognitive processes in scientific visualization. The proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering 2001.
Trickett, S. B., Trafton, J. G., & Schunn, C. D. (2000). Blobs, Dipsy-Doodles and Other Funky Things: Framework Anomalies in Exploratory Data Analysis. The proceedings of the twenty-second annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Trickett, S. B., Fu, W., Schunn, C. D., & Trafton, J. G. (2000). From Dipsy-Doodles to Streaming-Motions: Changes in Representation in the Analysis of Visual Scientific Data. The proceedings of the twenty-second annual conference of the cognitive science society.
Trafton, J. G, Kirschenbaum, S. S., Tsui, T. L., Miyamoto, R. T., Ballas, J. A., & Raymond, P. D. (2000). Turning Pictures into Numbers: extracting and generating information from complex visualizations. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 53(5), 827-850.
Lipps, A. W., Trafton, J. G., & Gray, W. D. (1998). Animation as documentation: A replication with reinterpretation. Intercom, 7, 199–201.