Information visualizations for knowledge acquisition: The impact of dimensionality and color coding

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 43-65

  Keller, Tanja ^a   Gerjets, Peter ^b   Scheiter, Katharina ^a   Garsoffky, Bärbel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Color coding; Dimensionality; Information visualization; Knowledge acquisition

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COLOR; DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; VISUALIZATION;

COLOR CODING; DIMENSIONALITY; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

EID: 25844460551     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2005.01.006     Document Type: Article

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