Revealing uncertainty for information visualization

Information Visualization

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 70-81

  Skeels, Meredith ^a   Lee, Bongshin ^b   Smith, Greg ^b   Robertson, George G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Qualitative research; Uncertainty classification; Uncertainty visualization; User centered design

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL DATA; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INFORMED DECISION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UNCERTAINTY VISUALIZATION; USER CENTERED DESIGNS;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77949393640     PISSN: 14738716     EISSN: 14738724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ivs.2009.1     Document Type: Article

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