A city metaphor to support navigation in complex information spaces

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 597-622

  Dieberger, Andreas ^a   Frank, Andrew U ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

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EID: 0032347623     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jvlc.1998.0100     Document Type: Article

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