Geo-historical context support for information foraging and sensemaking: Conceptual model, implementation, and assessment

VAST 10 - IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2010, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 139-146

  Tomaszewski, Brian ^a   MacEachren, Alan M ^b  

^a ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Foraging; Geographic information retrieval; Mapping; Sensemaking; Text analysis

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT; FORAGING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SENSEMAKING; TEXT ANALYSIS;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MOBILE DEVICES; VISUALIZATION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 78650946603     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VAST.2010.5652895     Document Type: Conference Paper

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