Comparison of tag cloud layouts: Task-related performance and visual exploration

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

Volumn 5726 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2009, Pages 392-404

  Lohmann, Steffen ^a   Ziegler, Jürgen ^a   Tetzlaff, Lena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Eye tracking; Folksonomy; Navigation; Perception; Performance; Tag clouds; Tagging; User goals; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION; EYE TRACKING; FOLKSONOMY; PERCEPTION; PERFORMANCE; TAG CLOUDS; TAGGING; USER GOALS; EYE-TRACKING; FOLKSONOMIES;

CLOUDS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; NAVIGATION; VISUALIZATION; DATA MINING; FLOW VISUALIZATION; METADATA; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 70350605921     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03655-2_43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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