Understanding interactive legends: A comparative evaluation with standard widgets

Computer Graphics Forum

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1193-1202

  Riche, Nathalie Henry ^a   Lee, Bongshin ^a   Plaisant, Catherine ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

H.5 Information Interfaces and Presentation : Miscellaneous

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATIONS; INTERACTION MECHANISMS; INTERACTIVE INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; VISUAL ENCODINGS; VISUAL EXPLORATION; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77955725151     PISSN: 01677055     EISSN: 14678659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01678.x     Document Type: Article

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