Mixing evaluation methods for assessing the utility of an interactive InfoVis technique

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4550 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2007, Pages 604-613

  Rester, Markus ^a   Pohl, Margit ^a   Wiltner, Sylvia ^a   Hinum, Klaus ^a   Miksch, Silvia ^b   Popow, Christian ^c   Ohmann, Susanne ^c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS   (Austria)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Focus groups; Information visualization; Insight reports; Methodology; Utility

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; UTILITY PROGRAMS;

FOCUS GROUPS; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INTERACTIVE INFOVIS TECHNIQUE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 38149120808     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73105-4_67     Document Type: Conference Paper

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