Tasks and scenario-based evaluation of information visualization techniques

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 86, Issue , 2004, Pages 165-172

  Winckler, Marco A ^a   Palanque, Philippe ^a   Freitas, Carla M D S ^b  

^a IRIT   (France)

^b Informatics Inst   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Information visualization; Task modeling; Visualization tasks

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INTERACTION TECHNIQUES; KEY ELEMENTS; SCENARIO-BASED EVALUATION; TASK MODELING; TASK MODELS; TEST SCENARIO; USABILITY EVALUATION; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS; VISUAL TASKS;

ABSTRACTING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77953013526     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1045446.1045475     Document Type: Conference Paper

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