Is a picture worth a thousand words? An evaluation of information awareness displays

Proceedings - Graphics Interface

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 117-126

  Plaue, Christopher ^a   Miller, Todd ^a   Stasko, John ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient display; Awareness information; Empirical evaluation; Information visualization; Peripheral display

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT DISPLAY; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; PERIPHERAL DISPLAY;

COLOR; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; IMAGE CODING; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PORTALS; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 4143107951     PISSN: 07135424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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