however, findings from different domains are rarely shared across domains though there there may be domain-general principles underlying visualizations and their use. The limited cross-domain communication may be due to a lack of a unifying cognitive framework.
Given their widespread use and social impact, researchers in many domains, including cognitive psychology, information visualization, and medical decision making, study how we make decisions with visualizations.
there are obstacles for scientists interested in integrating findings from other domains - including the lack of cognitive model that accurately describes decision making with visualizations
considering the importance and impact of decisions made with visualizations, it is critical that researchers have the resources to utilize cross-domain findings on this topic.
Visualizations are external visual representations that are systematically related to the information that they represent.
While the term decision has a range of meanings in everyday language, here decision making is defined as a choice between two or more competing courses of action.
The capacity to make intuitive and strategic decisions is described by dual-process account of decision making, which suggests that humans make fast, easy, and computationally light decision by default, but can also make slow, contemplative and effortful decisions