Chronos: A tool for interactive scheduling and visualisation of task hierarchies

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 241-246

  Luz, Saturnino ^a   Masoodian, Masood ^b   McKenzie, Daniel ^b   Broeck, Wim Vanden ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT MANIPULATION; GANTT CHART; INTERACTIVE TECHNIQUES; MEETING SCHEDULING; PARALLEL TASK; PROJECT PLANNING; REPRESENTATION SPACE; SCHEDULING INFORMATION; TASK HIERARCHIES; TEMPORAL INFERENCE; VISUALISATION;

SCHEDULING;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 70449485865     PISSN: 10939547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IV.2009.88     Document Type: Conference Paper

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