Position: Visual Sentences: Definitions and Applications

Visual forms of communication are ubiquitous in media, educational texts, government reports, and scientific publications. Two challenges immediately come to mind and drive the research agenda we have been following. We need to know that these graphs are provably understandable. We also need to know that the personnel have the skills to understand the information being presented when it is presented well. In this paper, we assert that the right way to achieve both goals relies on perceiving what are the visual equivalents of sentences from graphs.