Using visual analytics to maintain situation awareness in astrophysics

VAST'08 - IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 27-34

  Aragon, Cecilia R ^a   Poon, Sarah S ^b   Aldering, Gregory S ^a   Thomas, Rollin C ^a   Quimby, Robert ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrophysics; Data and knowledge visualization; Scientific visualization; Situation awareness; Visual analytics

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX DATA; DATA VOLUME; DOMAIN EXPERTS; ENDSLEY; INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMS; KNOWLEDGE VISUALIZATION; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES; PRODUCTION SYSTEM; SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATIONS; SITUATION AWARENESS; SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES; SYSTEM DESIGN PROCESS; TIME PRESSURES; USABILITY EVALUATION; VISUAL ANALYTICS; VISUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS;

ASTROPHYSICS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77949864820     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VAST.2008.4677353     Document Type: Conference Paper

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