Visual perception and mixed-initiative interaction for assisted visualization design

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 396-411

  Healey, Christopher G ^a,b   Kocherlakota, Sarat ^c   Rao, Vivek ^d   Mehta, Reshma ^e   Amant, Robert St ^b  

^a IEEE

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c Renaissance Computing Institute   (United States)

^d GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^e MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer graphics; Perception; Search; User interfaces; Visualization

Indexed keywords

INITIATIVE SEARCH STRATEGY; MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA SETS; ONLINE AUCTIONS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SALES; TABU SEARCH; USER INTERFACES; VISION;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; VISION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 38649096902     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2007.70436     Document Type: Conference Paper

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