TY - GEN A1 - Sterzik, Anna A1 - Lichtenberg, Nils A1 - Krone, Michael A1 - Cunningham, Douglas William A1 - Lawonn, Kai ED - Raidou, Renata G. ED - Sommer, Björn ED - Kuhlen, Torsten W. ED - Krone, Michael ED - Schultz, Thomas ED - Wu, Hsiang-Yun T1 - Perceptual Evaluation of Common Line Variables for Displaying Uncertainty on Molecular Surfaces T2 - Eurographics Workshop on Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine N2 - Data are often subject to some degree of uncertainty, whether aleatory or epistemic. This applies both to experimental data acquired with sensors as well as to simulation data. Displaying these data and their uncertainty faithfully is crucial for gaining knowledge. Specifically, the effective communication of the uncertainty can influence the interpretation of the data and the users' trust in the visualization. However, uncertainty-aware visualization has gotten little attention in molecular visualization. When using the established molecular representations, the physicochemical attributes of the molecular data usually already occupy the common visual channels like shape, size, and color. Consequently, to encode uncertainty information, we need to open up another channel by using feature lines. Even though various line variables have been proposed for uncertainty visualizations, they have so far been primarily used for two-dimensional data and there has been little perceptual evaluation. Therefore, we conducted a perceptual study to determine the suitability of the line variables sketchiness, dashing, grayscale, and width for distinguishing several uncertainty values on molecular surfaces. KW - Human centered computing KW - Empirical studies in visualization KW - Scientific visualization KW - Computing methodologies KW - Non-photorealistic rendering KW - Applied computing KW - Imaging KW - CCS Concepts Y1 - 2022 UR - https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/vcbm20221186 SN - 978-3-03868-177-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.2312/vcbm.20221186 SN - 2070-5786 SP - 41 EP - 51 PB - The Eurographics Association ER -