Understanding and characterizing insights: How do people gain insights using information visualization?

Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on BEyond Time and Errors: Novel EvaLuation Methods for Information Visualization 2008, BELIV'08

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Yi, Ji Soo ^a   Stasko, Youn Ah Kang John T ^b   Jacko, Julie A ^c  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Evaluation; Information visualization; Insight; Sensemaking

Indexed keywords

CATEGORIZATION; EVALUATION; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INSIGHT; SENSEMAKING;

ERRORS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 57349102264     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1377966.1377971     Document Type: Conference Paper

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