Empirical evaluation of aesthetics-based graph layout

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 233-255

  Purchase, Helen C ^a   Carrington, David ^a   Allder, Jo Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Graph drawing aesthetic; UML diagrams; User evaluation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; DRAWING (GRAPHICS); USABILITY ENGINEERING;

GRAPH DRAWING AESTHETIC; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE; USER EVALUATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036723318     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016344215610     Document Type: Article

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