Lessons learned from the design and evaluation of visual information-seeking systems

International Journal on Digital Libraries

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 49-66

  Gerken, Jens ^a   Heilig, Mathias ^a   Jetter, Hans Christian ^a   Rexhausen, Sebastian ^a   Demarmels, Mischa ^a   König, Werner A ^a   Reiterer, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Design principles; Digital libraries; Human computer interaction; Information visualization; Interaction design; Search; Semantic zooming; Visual information seeking

Indexed keywords

EID: 71149104073     PISSN: 14325012     EISSN: 14321300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00799-009-0052-6     Document Type: Article

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