Useful junk? The effects of visual embellishment on comprehension and memorability of charts

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 2573-2582

  Bateman, Scott ^a   Mandryk, Regan L ^a   Gutwin, Carl ^a   Genest, Aaron ^a   McDine, David ^a   Brooks, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

charts; imagery; information visualization; memorability

Indexed keywords

BAR CHART; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 77953994698     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1753326.1753716     Document Type: Conference Paper

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