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Francisco Kiss, University of Stuttgart Sven Mayer, Carnegie Mellon University Valentin Schwind, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences challenged only recently by digital streaming platforms. Thus, visual information is a longstanding, major source of knowledge transfer for a large portion of humankind, and both its ubiquity and the public it reaches grow as technology advances. Human-computer interaction (HCI) is not impermeable to this cultural phenomenon—visuals remain the most frequent medium in computer interfaces. Technological advances have empowered interaction techniques, moving away from punched cards to screens displaying text in real time, and further to graphical depictions and even video and animations. This

Today we see a global trend emphasizing the visual over other media. Visual media pervades our lives in the form of text, images, and video. Already in the mid-18th century …