Evaluation of symbol contrast in scatterplots

IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, PacificVis 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 97-104

  Li, Jing ^a   Van Wijk, Jarke J ^a   Martens, Jean Bernard ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

G.3 probability and statistics : Experimental design; H.1.2 user machine systems : Human factors and human information processing; H.5.2 user interfaces : Evaluation methodology and theory and methods; I.2.10 vision and scene understanding : Perceptual reasoning; J.4 social and behavioral sciences : Psychology; MDS; Scatterplots; Size perception; Symbol contrast; Symbol separation; Visual feature encoding

Indexed keywords

G.3 [PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS]: EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; H.1.2 [USER/MACHINE SYSTEMS]: HUMAN FACTORS AND HUMAN INFORMATION PROCESSING; H.5.2 [USER INTERFACES]: EVALUATION/METHODOLOGY AND THEORY AND METHODS; I.2.10 [VISION AND SCENE UNDERSTANDING]: PERCEPTUAL REASONING; J.4 [SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES]: PSYCHOLOGY; MDS; SCATTERPLOTS; SIZE PERCEPTION; SYMBOL CONTRAST; SYMBOL SEPARATION; VISUAL FEATURE ENCODING;

BIONICS; DATA PROCESSING; DATA VISUALIZATION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); HUMAN ENGINEERING; STATISTICS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION;

SIZE SEPARATION;

EID: 67650524720     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PACIFICVIS.2009.4906843     Document Type: Conference Paper

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