Seven types of visual ambiguity: On the merits and risks of multiple interpretations of collaborative visualizations

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 391-396

  Eppler, Martin J ^a   Mengis, Jeanne ^a   Bresciani, Sabrina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; CATALYSIS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; VISUALIZATION;

FUTURE RESEARCH; GROUP COMMUNICATION; GROUP WORK; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; SENSE-MAKING; VISUAL METAPHORS; VISUALISATION;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 52049097722     PISSN: 10939547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IV.2008.47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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