A model of symbol size discrimination in scatterplots

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 2553-2562

  Li, Jing ^a   Martens, Jean Bernard ^a   Van Wijk, Jarke J ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

graphical encoding; quantitative model; scatterplots; size discrimination; symbol size; user experiment; visual analytic task

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE PROCESS; COMPLEX TASK; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HUMAN PERFORMANCE; HUMAN VISUAL; MAPPING SCHEME; OPTIMAL SCALE; PERCEPTUAL MAPPING; POWER LAW; PSYCHOPHYSICAL LAWS; QUANTITATIVE MODEL; QUANTITATIVE MODELS; SCATTER PLOTS; SIZE PERCEPTION;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); HUMAN ENGINEERING; VISUALIZATION;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77953973117     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753714     Document Type: Conference Paper

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