Extremes are better: Investigating mental map preservation in dynamic graphs

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5223 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 60-73

  Purchase, Helen C ^a   Samra, Amanjit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic graph layout; Empirical study; Mental map

Indexed keywords

GRAPH THEORY; MAPS;

DYNAMIC GRAPH LAYOUT; DYNAMIC GRAPHS; DYNAMIC LAYOUTS; EFFECTIVE ALGORITHMS; EMPIRICAL STUDY; GRAPH LAYOUTS; HUMAN DATUMS; INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCES; LAYOUT ALGORITHMS; MENTAL MAP; MENTAL MAPS;

CONFORMAL MAPPING;

EID: 56549101391     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87730-1_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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