Evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of visual variables for geographic information visualization

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

Volumn 5756 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 195-211

  Garlandini, Simone ^a   Fabrikant, Sara Irina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Change blindness; Empirical studies; Eye movements; Geographic visualization; Visual variables

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHIC DESIGN; CHANGE BLINDNESS; COLOR HUE; COLOR VALUES; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EVALUATION APPROACH; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; GEOGRAPHIC VISUALIZATION; GEOVISUALIZATION; SUBJECT EXPERIMENT; SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT; VARIABLE ORIENTATION; VISUAL SALIENCY MODEL; VISUAL VARIABLES;

EYE PROTECTION; IMAGE REGISTRATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; MAPPING; VISUALIZATION;

EYE MOVEMENTS;

EID: 70350765323     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03832-7_12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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