"visual research" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in any context when discussing research methods and techniques. For example, "My team and I conducted a comprehensive visual research study to better understand how people perceive our product."
Unless, that is, viewing visual research into early church architecture in upstate New York is your idea of a good time.
In the studio Jonah welcomed his father into his structured daily routine, which includes solo studies, outside visual research, even re-enactments.
For instance, Henry Mayhew's 19th-century social surveys of London's poor, Douglas Harper's 20th-century visual research on freighthopping, and Alice Goffman's 21st-century ethnographic accounts of African Americans trapped in a revolving door of legal precarity in Philadelphia.
On Friday evening, Sept. 14, I asked our visual research team to find stock photos of flags, and by Monday I had eight images, downloaded two and began to experiment with position and type.
He filled up nearly two notebooks with sketches and ideas, read widely and immersed himself in visual research, studying the work of Japanese wood block printmakers like Hiroshige and Hokusai, and the Japanese influence on the mid-20th-century architecture and furniture of Charles and Ray Eames.
"It's exciting and visual research," he says.
This could include bibliometrics; a quantitative analysis of research literature and citation rates or altmetrics, which incorporates for example social media analyses and download rates of visual research-related materials, alongside citation rates.
Whereas characteristics of viewing behaviour are central to visual expertise research, cognitive expertise research focuses on the quantity, nature and structure of a diagnostician's knowledge, as well as the reasoning strategies employed.
Overall, the number of well-designed and adequately reported studies is pitifully small; visual rehabilitation research needs higher quality research.
The University of Surrey's visual media research group is headed up by Professor Adrian Hilton.
"The visual analytics research community works on these issues," he says, "but more needs to be done".
