An explorative analysis of user evaluation studies in information visualisation

Proceedings of BELIV'06: BEyond time and errors - novel EvaLuation methods for Information Visualization. A workshop of the AVI 2006 International Working Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ellis, Geoffrey ^a   Dix, Alan ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case study; Evaluation; Explorative evaluation; Information visualisation

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DATASETS; EVALUATION STUDIES; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547225590     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1168149.1168152     Document Type: Article

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