Perceiving patterns in parallel coordinates: Determining thresholds for identification of relationships

Information Visualization

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 152-162

  Johansson, Jimmy ^a   Forsell, Camilla ^a   Lind, Mats ^b   Cooper, Matthew ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Evaluation of visualization; Parallel coordinates; Pattern identification; Perception

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; STANDARDS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; VISUALIZATION;

NOISY DATA; PARALLEL COORDINATES; SIMULTANEOUS ANALYSIS; VISUAL QUALITY METRIC; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUES;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 44849144425     PISSN: 14738716     EISSN: 14738724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500166     Document Type: Article

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