Effective sensor-bridging with visual preattentive features

The goal of sensor-bridging is to map sensory information to a modality that humans are able to process effectively. As our vision has the highest bandwidth to our brain from all our senses, data visualization has an important role in presenting such information. We review research in data visualization and human visual perception, show several examples for images that are easy to process, and provide some recommendations for effective visual sensor-bridging. At the end, we pose some open research questions for the area of cognitive infocommunications and human-computer interaction.