Distributed cognition as a theoretical framework for information visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1173-1180

  Liu, Zhicheng ^a   Nersessian, Nancy J ^b   Stasko, John T ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed cognition; Information visualization; Interaction; Representation; Theory and methods

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COGNITION; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INTERACTION; REPRESENTATION; THEORY AND METHODS;

FLOW INTERACTIONS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

ARTICLE; BIOMIMETICS; COGNITION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; METHODOLOGY;

BIOMIMETICS; COGNITION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; INFORMATICS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 54949141110     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.121     Document Type: Conference Paper

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