Minimalism in information visualization: Attitudes towards maximizing the data-ink ratio

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 250, Issue , 2007, Pages 185-188

  Inbar, Ohad ^a   Tractinsky, Noam ^a   Meyer, Joachim ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

chartjunk; information visualization; minimalist design; Tufte

Indexed keywords

CHARTJUNK; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; EMPIRICAL RESULTS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; PRIOR EXPERIENCE; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; RESEARCH APPROACH;

DATA VISUALIZATION; DESIGN; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INK; RESEARCH; VISUALIZATION;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 77954443180     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1362550.1362587     Document Type: Conference Paper

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