Casual information visualization: Depictions of data in everyday life

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1145-1152

  Pousman, Zachary ^b   Stasko, John T ^a,b   Mateas, Michael ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient infovis; Casual information visualization; Design; Editorial; Evaluation; Social infovis

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT INFOVIS; CASUAL INFORMATION VISUALIZATION;

DATA REDUCTION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DATA BASE; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 35948980010     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70541     Document Type: Article

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