On the beauty and usability of tag clouds

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 17-25

  Seifert, Christin ^a   Kump, Barbara ^b   Kienreich, Wolfgang ^a   Granitzer, Gisela ^a   Granitzer, Michael ^a  

^a KNOW CENTER   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; TECHNICAL EVALUATIONS; USER STUDIES; VISUALISATION;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 51749102408     PISSN: 10939547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IV.2008.89     Document Type: Conference Paper

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