Relo: Helping users manage context during interactive exploratory visualization of large codebases

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, VL/HCC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 187-194

  Sinha, Vineet ^a   Karger, David ^a   Miller, Rob ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATORY VISUALIZATIONS; INTERACTIVE EXPLORATION; MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; USER-CENTERED APPROACH;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 49349108726     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VLHCC.2006.40     Document Type: Conference Paper

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