Beyond time and error: A cognitive approach to the evaluation of graph drawings

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Huang, Weidong ^a   Eades, Peter ^a   Hong, Seok Hee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cognitive load; Cognitive process; Evaluation; Eye tracking; Graph drawing; Questionnaire; Visualization; Visualization efficiency

Indexed keywords

DRAWING (GRAPHICS); ERRORS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PHOTOCOPYING; USER INTERFACES;

COGNITIVE LOAD; COGNITIVE PROCESS; EVALUATION; EYE TRACKING; GRAPH DRAWING; QUESTIONNAIRE;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 57349116003     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1377966.1377970     Document Type: Conference Paper

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