Between aesthetics and utility: Designing ambient information visualizations

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, INFO VIS

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 233-240

  Skog, Tobias ^a   Ljungblad, Sara ^a   Erik Holmquist, Lars ^a  

^a VIKTORIA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ambient displays; Ambient information visualization; Calm technology; Informative art

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT DISPLAYS; AMBIENT INFORMATION; CALM TECHNOLOGY; DEPARTURE TIME; DESIGN CONSTRAINTS; DESKTOP COMPUTER; DESKTOP SPACE; DYNAMIC DATA; DYNAMIC INFORMATION; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INFORMATIVE ART; POTENTIAL USERS; PUBLIC PLACES; PUBLIC SPACE; REAL TIME VISUALIZATION; VISUAL ARTS;

DATA VISUALIZATION; DISPLAY DEVICES; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 78649626107     PISSN: 1522404X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFVIS.2003.1249031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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