Knowledge precepts for design and evaluation of information visualizations

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 432-442

  Amar, Robert A ^a   Stasko, John T ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Information visualization; Theory and methods; Visualization techniques and methodologies

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; THEORY AND METHODS; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES AND METHODOLOGIES;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA REDUCTION; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES;

VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA BASE; EVALUATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; ONLINE SYSTEM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ONLINE SYSTEMS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 22944441013     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2005.63     Document Type: Conference Paper

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