Attacking information visuaization lsystem usability overloading and deceiving the human

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 93, Issue , 2005, Pages 89-100

  Conti, Gregory ^a   Ahamad, Mustaque ^a   Stasko, John ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Denial of information; Information visualization; Malicious visualizations; Secure visualization; Usability attacks

Indexed keywords

DENIAL OF INFORMATION; END USERS; INFORMATION INFORMATION; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION SYSTEM; L-SYSTEMS; LARGE AMOUNTS OF DATA; POTENTIAL ATTACK; TECHNOLOGY INDEPENDENT;

DATA VISUALIZATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK SECURITY;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77953779300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1073001.1073010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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