Spatialization design: Comparing points and landscapes

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1262-1269

  Tory, Melanie ^b   Sprague, David W ^b   Wu, Fuqu ^b   So, Wing Yan ^b   Munzner, Tamara ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

2D; 3D; Colour; Greyscale; Information landscape; Numerosity; Points; Spatialization; Surface; User study

Indexed keywords

GREYSCALE; INFORMATION LANDSCAPES; NUMEROSITY; POINTS; SPATIALIZATION; USER STUDY;

COLOR; IMAGE CODING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

EID: 35948955525     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70596     Document Type: Article

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