Uncovering strengths and weaknesses of radial visualizations-an empirical approach

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 935-942

  Diehl, Stephan ^a   Beck, Fabian ^a   Burch, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Radial visualization; user study; visual memory

Indexed keywords

CARTESIAN COORDINATE SYSTEM; CARTESIANS; DATA DIMENSIONS; DATA SPECTRUM; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; RADIAL COORDINATES; RADIAL VISUALIZATION; USER STUDY; VISUAL ELEMENTS; VISUAL MEMORY;

DATA VISUALIZATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 78149232727     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.209     Document Type: Article

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